Abronia alpina Brandegee (1899:456)
Ramshaw Meadows sand-verbena, Ramshaw Meadows abronia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1914 or before (Jepson, 1914)
Rediscovered in: August 1969 (Wilson, 1970)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution & Habitat
California, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Brandegee, T. S. (1899). New Species of Western Plants. Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 27: 444-457.
Other references:
Jabis, M. D., Ayers, T. J. and Allan, G. J. (2011). Pollinator-mediated gene flow fosters genetic variability in a narrow alpine endemic, Abronia alpina (Nyctaginaceae). American Journal of Botany 98: 1583-1594.
Jepson, W. L. (1914). A Flora of California Part IV. H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco. pp. 369-464. ( Nyctaginaceae: pp. 451-459.)
Munz, P. A. (1959). A California Flora. Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1681 pp.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 23 March 2025]
Smith, James Payne, Jr., and Berg, K. (1988). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (4th edition). California Native Plant Society. Sacramento. xviii + 170 pp.
Standley, P. C. (1909). Allioniaceae of the United States, with notes on Mexican species. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 12: 303-389.
Standley, P. C. (1918). Allioniaceae. North Amer. Flora. 21: 171-254.
Treher, A. (2024). Abronia alpina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T200491948A200528367. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T200491948A200528367.en. Accessed on 24 March 2025.
Wilson, Ruth C. (1970). The rediscovery of Abronia alpina, a rare specialized endemic of sandy meadows in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Aliso 7(2): 201-205.