Boechera fructicosa (A.Nelson) Al-Shehbaz (2003:385)
Fruit rockcress
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Arabis fructicosa A.Nelson in Bot. Gaz. 30: 190 (1900)
Conservation Status
Missing (Walter & Gillett, 1998:214 [as "Ex/E"]; NatureServe, 2024) or Extinct (Knapp et al., 2021; Abeli et al., 2022b; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last record: 1899 (Ripley, 1975:41; Knapp et al., 2021; NatureServe, 2024); 1900 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Considered rediscovered by (Humphreys et al., 2019), however the authority they cite (http://www.wynps.org/newsletters/2013_12.pdf) lists the taxon under "[Boechera microphylla? Hybrid?]".
Distribution
near Undine Falls (Yellowstone National Park), Park County, Wyoming (& Montana? Minnesota?)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Nelson, A. (1900). Contributions from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, I. Botanical Gazette 30: 189-203.
Other references:
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022a). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022b). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. Nature Plants 8: 1370-1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01293-w
Al-Shehbaz, I. and Windham, M. (2010). Boechera, pp. 348-412. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+, Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.
Ayensu, E. S. and Defilipps, R. A. (1978). Endangered and Threatened Plants of the United States: 1-403. Smithsonian Institution.
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]
Dorn, R. D. (1977). Manual of the Vascular Plants of Wyoming. Garland Publishing, New York. 801 pp.
Dorn, R. D. (1988). Vascular plants of Wyoming. Mountain West Publishing, Cheyenne, WY. 340 pp.
Dorn, R. D. (2001). Vascular plants of Wyoming, 3rd edition. University of Wyoming Publishing. 412 pp.
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)]
NatureServe. (2024). Boechera fructicosa, Fruit Rockcress. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 10 July 2024]
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 15 September 2024]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [41].
Rollins, R. C. (1983). Interspecific hybridization and taxon uniformity in Arabis (Cruciferae) Reed C. Rollins. American Journal of Botany 70(4): 625-634.
Rollins, R. C. (1993). The Cruciferae of continental North America: Systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to Panama. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 976 pp.
Walter, Kerry Scott 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.
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2519/arabis-fructicosa
http://www.wynps.org/newsletters/2013_12.pdf