Brunia trigyna (Schltr.) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv. (2011)
Pondoland ghost-bush, Pondo Ghost-bush
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Berardia trigyna Schltr. in J. Bot. 36: 315 (1898); Raspalia trigyna (Schltr.) Dümmer in J. Bot. 50(Suppl. 2): 21 (1912)
Conservation Status
Last record: November 1987 (Abbott, 2003)
Rediscovered in 1988 (Abbott, 2003)
Last wild record: 1995 (Abbott, 2003)
Rediscovered in the wild in August 1995 (Abbott, 2003)
Distribution
Eastern Cape Province & KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Schlechter, R. (1898). Decades plantarum novarum Austro-Africanarum. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 36: 314-318.
Other references:
Abbott, A. (1988a). The last days of Raspalia trigyna. Trees in South Africa 39:41-43.
Abbott, A. (1988b). The return of Raspalia trigyna. Trees in South Africa 40:20-21.
Abbott, T. (1996). Woody plants of the Pondoland Centre: Raspalia trigyna - the ghost of the Pondoland Centre. Trees in South Africa 56:8-10.
Abbott, T. (2003). The story of the Pondoland Ghost Bush. http://www.safcei.org.za/wildcoast/raspalia_story.htm. Downloaded on 10-10-2007.
Abbott, T. (2006). The story of the Pondoland Centre. PlantLife 33-34: 5-72.
Arkell, J. (1995). The quiet extinction of Raspalia trigyna. PlantLife 13:19-20.
Arkell, J. (1996). South Africa's rarest shrub lives! PlantLife 14:24.
Boon, R. (2010). Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine, Oliver, E. G. H., Hall, A. V. and Quint, Marcus. (2011). A new classification of the South African endemic family Bruniaceae based on molecular and morphological data. Taxon 60(4): 1138-1155. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.604016
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Grieve, Kate and Grieve, Graham. (2021). Twist of fate. Veld & Flora 107(1): 16-21. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-veld_v107_n1_a9
Hilton-Taylor, Craig. (1996). Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, Craig. (1997). Red data list of southern African plants. 2. Corrections and additions. Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation 27(2): 195-209 [204].
IPNI. (2023). Berardia trigyna Schltr. International Plant Names Index. Published on the Internet https://www.ipni.org, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Herbarium. [Retrieved 11 October 2023].
Pillans, N. S. (1947). A revision of Bruniaceae. Journal of South African Botany 13: 121-206.
Quint, Marcus and Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine. (2008). Ancient or recent? Insights into the temporal evolution of the Bruniaceae. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 8(4): 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.03.001
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J. E., Helme, N. A., Turner, R. C., Kamundi, D. A. and Manyama, P. A. (2009). Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Scott-Shaw, C. R. (1999). Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.