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Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, 1892:423

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Lepidium loulanicum C.H.An & G.L.Zhou

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Abeli et al., 2022b; 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)

SP030109

SP030110 (collected 9 December 1891)

SP081926 (collected 1931)

 

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 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 Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction.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 Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction.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

Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [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

 

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