Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, 1892:423
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Lepidium loulanicum C.H.An & G.L.Zhou
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022)
Last record: 1950 (wild) (de Lange, 2014); 1951 (de Lange et al., 2013)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 46/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
North Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:
SP030108 (collected January 1914)
SP030110 (collected 9 December 1891)
Media
Above: Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, collected January 1914, Seatoun, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP030108)
Above: Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, collected Port Nicholson [entrance to], New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP030109)
Above: Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, collected 1931, Seatoun, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP081926)
Above: Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, collected 9 December 1891, Port Nicholson (entrance to), New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP030110)
References
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Rocchetti, Giulia Albani. (2022). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1
Albani Rocchetti, G., Carta, A., Mondoni, A. et al. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
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. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]
de Lange, P. (2014). Lepidium obtusatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T62798292A62798296. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T62798292A62798296.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.
P. J. de Lange, P. B. Heenan, G. J. Houliston, J. R. Rolfe, A. D. Mitchell. (2013). New Lepidium (Brassicaceae) from New Zealand. PhytoKeys 24: 1-147.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. (2013). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 70 pp.
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
Norton, D.A. (1991). Trilepidea adamsii: an orbituary for a species. Conservation biology 5: 52-57.
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.
Wilton, A.D.; Schönberger, I.; Boardman, K.F.; Breitwieser, I.; Cochrane, M.; Dawson, M.I.; de Lange, P.J.; de Pauw, B.; Fife, A.J.; Ford, K.A.; Gibb, E.S.; Glenny, D.S.; Heenan, P.B.; Korver, M.A.; Novis, P.M.; Redmond, D.N.; Smissen, R.D.; Tawiri, K. (2016). Checklist of the New Zealand Flora – Seed Plants. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.7931/P1PP42