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 (Humphreys et al., 2019; Abeli et al., 2021; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024), with reintroduction underway (Abeli et al., 2021)

Last wild record: 1976 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

Although listed as extinct by (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, 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]

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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