Githopsis diffusa filicaulis (Ewan) Morin (1983:465)

Mission Canyon bluecup, Mission Canyon blue-cup

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Githopsis filicaulis Ewan in Rhodora 41: 312 (1939)

Conservation Status

Rediscovered [by implication] (NatureServe, 2024)

Historically considered extinct by at least one source when it was a binomial (fide Humphreys et al., 2019), it is known to be extant today (NatureServe, 2024) and therefore qualifies as rediscovered..

Distribution

California, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB). (2016). RareFind Version 5.1.1. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento.

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.

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]

Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Morin, N. (1983). Systematics of Githopsis (Campanulaceae). Syst. Bot. 8(4): 436-468.

NatureServe. (2024). NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 24 May 2024].

Skinner, M. W., and Pavlik, B. M. (eds.). (1997). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. 1997 Electronic Inventory Update of 1994 5th edition, California Native Plant Society, Special Publication No. 1, Sacramento.

Smith, James Payne, Jnr. (ed.) and York, Richard (DEM). (1984). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (3rd edition). Berkeley, California: California Native Plant Society. xviii + 174 pp.

Wiggins, I. L. (1980). Flora of Baja California. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 1025 pp.

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