Hieracium hethlandiae (F.Hanb.) Pugsley (1946:346)

Cliva Hill hawkweed 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hieracium dovrense var. hethlandiae F.Hanb. in J. Bot. 32: 232 (1894)

Conservation Status

Extinct in the wild (POWO, 2024)

Although listed as extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Rich, 2020), it survives in cultivation and has been reintroduced to the wild (Abeli et al., 2021). But until the attempted reintroduction has been shown to produce a self-sustaining population with no human intervention required, I retain it as extinct in the wild.

Distribution

Shetland Islands, Scotland

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1

Christenhusz, M. and Govaerts, R. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.

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]

POWO. (2024). Hieracium hethlandiae (F.Hanb.) Pugsley. 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. (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

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

https://lists.nbnatlas.org/speciesListItem/list/dr618

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracium_hethlandiae

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