Phacelia amabilis Constance
Saline valley phacelia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Smith, 2018); "extinct or missing" (Suckling et al., 2004) or Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 1942 [1971] (Smith, 2018); 1985 (Suckling et al., 2004)
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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.
Skinner, M.W., and B.M. Pavlik, eds. 1997 (1994). 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