Phacelia amabilis Constance (1943:56)
Saline valley phacelia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Suckling et al., 2004 [as "extinct or missing"] or Extinct (Smith, 2018)
Last record: 1942 [1971] (Smith, 2018); 1985 (Suckling et al., 2004)
Reported to have been rediscovered by (Humphreys et al., 2019), but their source (Calflora) does not mention any post-1942 records.
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Baldwin, B. B., Goldman, D. H., Keil, D. J., Patterson, R., Rosatti, T. and Wilken, D. (2012). The Jepson Manual, Vascular Plants of California second edition. Univ. California Press. 1568 pp.
CPC. (1990). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
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]
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Kennedy, Kathryn, Heidel, Bonnie and Gluesenkamp, Daniel. (2021). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology 35(1): 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 [Supporting Information (Appendix S1)]
Munz, P. A. (1968). Supplement to a California flora. Univ. California Press. Berkeley. 224 pp.
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 22 August 2024]
Skinner, M. W., and Pavlik, B. M. (eds.). (1997). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. 1997 Electronic Inventory Update of 1994 5th edition, California Native Plant Society, Special Publication No. 1, Sacramento.
Smith, James P. Jnr. (2018). California vascular plants: are some of them still out there? Botanical Studies 74: 1-4.
Suckling, Kierán, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
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.
http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Phacelia+amabilis
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=6284