Wahlenbergia burchellii A.DC. (1839:438)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Campanopsis burchellii (A.DC.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 379 (1891)

Conservation Status

Extinct (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) or Invalid (synonym of W. roxburghii) (POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1877 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) 

Distribution

St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 17 November 2024]

R.B.G. Kew & Intern. Inst. Environment and Development (1993). Statyus of the endemic flora and preliminary recovery programmes 3: 1-95.

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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