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Acilepis nayarii (Uniyal) H.Rob. & Skvarla (2009:141)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Vernonia nayarii Uniyal in Indian J. Forest. 11: 171 (1988); Vernonia recurva Bedd. ex S.Moore in J. Bot. 63: 171 (1925), nom. illeg.; Vernonia × recurva Gleason & S.B.Jones in Rhodora 66: 399 (1964), nom. illeg.

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:92 1998 [as V. recurva]; Walter & Gillett, 1998 [as V. recurva]; Rao et al., 2003:35 [as V. recurva]; Srivastava et al., 2015; Sivaraj et al., 2020:38 [as V. recurva]) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019)

Last record: 1857 (Srivastava et al., 2015); around 1857 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:92)

 

Humphreys et al. (2019) list the species as rediscovered, but their source (https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/forestry/forestry_threatened_plants_tamil_nadu.pdf) does not mention any such rediscovery.

 

Distribution

Anamalai Hills, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India

 

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References

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]

Moore, S. (1925). Notes from Beddome's Herbarium (South India). Indian J. Bot. 63: 171.

Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 92]

Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]

Sivaraj, N., Venkateswaran, Kamala, Pandravada, S. R., Reddy, M. Thirupathi Reddy and Rajasekharan, P. E. (2020). Threatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their ConservationThreatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their Conservation, pp. 31-62. In: Rajasekharan, P. E. and Wani, Shabir Hussain (eds.). Conservation and Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. xviii + 565 pp.

Srivastava, R. C., Lakshminarasimhan, P., Arisdason, W. and Sardesai, M. M. (2015). Angiosperms of India known only by type collection. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7465-7470. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3723.7465-70

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. 

 

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