Lachanodes arborea (Roxb.) B.Nord. (year?)
She cabbage tree
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mikania arborea Roxb. (basionym); Senecio prenanthiflorus (DC.) Benth. & Hook. f. (year?); Senecio redivivus Mabb. (year?)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last wild record: 2012
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Rediscovered in 1976. Now extinct in the wild as the last in situ tree died in 2012.
Distribution
Saint Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Burchell, W.J. 1805-10. Flora Insulae Sanctae Helenae. Unpublished manuscript held at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, U.K.
Cairns-Wicks, R. Draft Recovery Action Plan for Lachanodes arborea (She Cabbage).
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Cronk, Q.B.C. 1981. Senecio redivivus Mabb. and its successful conservation in St Helena. Environmental Conservation 8: 125-126.
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Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268
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Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Percy, D.M. and Cronk, Q.C.B. 1997. Conservation in relation to mating system in Nesohedyotis arborea (Rubiaceae), a rare endemic tree from St. Helena. Biological Conservation 80(2): 135-146.
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Vojtek, Ján. (2020). Refining extinction estimations for plants of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). MSc dissertation, Queen Mary, University of London. https://doi.org/10.34885/185
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