Staavia brownii Dümmer (1912:28)
Kogelberg diamondeyes
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1952 (Hilton-Taylor, 1997:205)
Rediscovered in 1997 (Raimondo, 2007)
Dümmer (1912:29) considered the species as possibly extinct when scientifically describing it, as it putatively occurred in a well botanised area without recent record. Hilton-Taylor (1997:205) states that it is only known from four old collections, the last of which dates from 1952. Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dümmer, R. A. (1912). An enumeration of the Bruniaceæ. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 50(Suppl. 2): 1-35 [28-29].
Other references:
Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine, Oliver, Edward G. H., Hall, Anthony V. and Quint, Marcus. (2019). A new classification of the South African endemic family Bruniaceae based on molecular and morphological data, Taxon 60(4): 1138-1155 [1146]. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.604016
Eggli, U. and Taylor, N. (eds.). (1994). List of names of succulent plants other than cacti. Whitstable, Kent: Whitstable Litho. 176 pp. From Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum (1950-1992).
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2000). Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (ed.) (1996). Red data list of Southern African plants: 1-117. Strelitzia 4. 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 [205].
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] [lists the species as extinct despite it being rediscovered in 1997]
POWO. (2023). Staavia brownii Dümmer. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 October 2023]
Raimondo, D. (2007). Staavia brownii Dummer. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2020.1. Accessed on 2023/10/08.
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.
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. [p. 89]