Helianthus praetermissus E.Watson (1929 "1928":335)
Lost sunflower, New Mexico sunflower
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
An unplaced name according to (POWO, 2024).
"This species may have been named from a depauperate specimen of Helianthus paradoxus. The recent discovery of more Helianthus paradoxus populations in New Mexico provides an opportunity to answer this question... Taxonomic relationship between Helianthus praetermissus and H. paradoxus needs clarification."
(New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council, 1999)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Ripley, 1975:40; Humphreys et al., 2019; Knapp et al., 2021; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024) but taxonimically suspect (see New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council, 1999)
Last (and only?) record (disputed): 21 or 27 September 1851 (New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council, 1999 [sole record; plus variable date]; Knapp et al., 2021 [as 1851]; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024 [as 1851]); 1929 (Ripley, 1975:40)
"This species is known only from the type specimen collected in 1851 on the Sitgreaves expedition."
(New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council, 1999)
Distribution
Cibola County (?), New Mexico (& Arizona?), USA
"This species is known only from the type specimen collected in 1851 on the Sitgreaves expedition. The locality was the head of the Rio Laguna (now Rio San Jose) at Ojo de la Gallina. There are two Ojo de la Gallinas on the expedition map, both on the north side of the Zuni Mountains. The date was September 27 (21?), 1851. Unfortunately, the collection locality does not match the location of the expedition on either date; it was at Zuni Pueblo on September 21 and near the junction of the Zuni and Little Colorado rivers on September 27."
(New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council, 1999)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Watson, E. E. (1929). Contributions to a monograph of the genus Helianthus. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 9: 305-475.
Other references:
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
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Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
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Heiser, C. B., Jr., with Smith, D. M., Clevenger, S. B. and Martin, W. C., Jr. (1969). The North American sunflowers (Helianthus). Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 22(3): 1-218.
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]
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Kennedy, Kathryn, Heidel, Bonnie and Gluesenkamp, Daniel. (2021). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology 35(1): 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 [Supporting Information (Appendix S1)]
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New Mexico Native Plants Protection Advisory Committee. (1984). A handbook of rare and endemic plants of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council. (1999). Helianthus praetermissus (Lost Sunflower). New Mexico Rare Plants. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Rare Plants Home Page. https://nmrareplants.unm.edu (Latest update: 29 Nov 2024).
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 18 August 2024]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [40].
Schilling, E. E. (2006). Helianthus. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+, Flora of North America North of Mexico. 19+ vols. New York and Oxford. Vol. 21, pp. 141-169.
Sitgreaves, L. (1853). Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado rivers. Senate Executive Document Number 59, 32nd Congress, 2nd Session. Reprinted in 1962 by Rio Grande Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.