Hieracium fissuricola P.D.Sell (2006:540)
Fisherplace Gill hawkweed, Fisher Ghyll hawkweed
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record (disputed): 1954 (Rich, 2023; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 2013 (Le Roux et al., 2019)
Rediscovered on: 13 July 2021 (collection); 2022 (recogntion) (both Rich, 2023)
Still listed as Extinct by (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024).
Distribution
Lake District, Great Britain
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sell, P. D. and Murrell, G. (2006). Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Other references:
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
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]
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
McCosh, D. J. and Rich, Timothy C. G. (2018). Atlas of British and Irish Hawkweeds (Pilosella Hill and Hieracium L.). 2nd ed. Harpenden: Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.
POWO. (2024). Hieracium fissuricola P.D.Sell. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 26 January 2024]
Rich, Timothy C. G. (2013). Surveys of three endemic Lake District Hawkweeds: Hieracium filisquamum, H. fissuricola and H. subintegrifolium. Unpublished Contract Survey for Natural England, September 2013. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
Rich, Timothy C. G. (2020). List of vascular plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands 2020. British & Irish Botany 2(3): 169-189. https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2020.02.169
Rich, Timothy C. G. (2023). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: rediscovery of the extinct Lake District endemic Hieracium fissuricola, Fisherplace Gill Hawkweed (Asteraceae). British & Irish Botany 5(2): 131-136.
Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Sell, P. D. and Murrell, G. (2006). Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Extinct; fide Rich, 2023:131]