Delilia inelegans (Hook.f.) Kuntze (1891:333)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Desmocephalum inelegans Hook.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 209 (1847); Elvira inelegans B.L.Rob. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 38: 212 (1902)

Conservation Status

Missing (León-Yánez et al., 2011:155) or Extinct (León-Yánez et al., 2011:18,155,925; Tye & Nykanen, 2014a,b; Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym of D. repens) (POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1835 (León-Yánez et al., 2011:155; Tye & Nykanen, 2014b)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Floreana, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Jørgensen, P. M. and León-Yánez, Susana. (1999). Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75.

Lawesson, J. E., Adsersen, H. and Bentley, P. (1987). An updated and annotated checklist of the vascular plants of the Galápagos Islands. Reports from the Botanical Institute, University of Århus 16: 1-74.

León-Yánez, Susana, Valencia, Renato, Pitman, Nigel, Endara, Lorena, Ulloa Ulloa, Carmen and Navarrete, Hugo (eds.). (2011). Libro rojo de las plantas endémicas del Ecuador, 2ª edición. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA,
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito. 957 pp. [WARNING: 194MB file]

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 14 April 2024]

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Tye, A. and Nykanen, M. (2014a). Delilia inelegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 February 2015.

Tye, A. and Nykanen, M. (2014b). Delilia inelegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T61483949A61483979. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T61483949A61483979.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Wiggins, I. L. and Porter, D. M. (1971). Flora of the Galápagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

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