Armeria arcuata Welw. ex Boiss. & Reut. (1852:101)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Possibly an occasional intersectional hybrid (Nieto Feliner, 1987 fide Domina et al., 2015), but its possible rediscovery in cultivation (see Abeli et al., 2021) would allow this to be either confirmed or rejected.
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1) or Extinct the wild(?) (Abeli et al., 2021)
"The Utrecht University Botanic Gardens host an accession of A. arcuata of unknown origin. It may represent A. caespitosa. DNA studies in due course."
(Abeli et al., 2021:283)
Distribution
Portugal
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1
Domina, Gianniantonio, Bazan, Giuseppe, Campisi, Patrizia and Greuter, Werner. (2015). Taxonomy and conservation in Higher Plants and Bryophytes in the Mediterranean Area. Biodiversity Journal 6(1): 197-204.
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]
Nieto Feliner, G. (1987). The genus Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) in the Iberian Península: comments and new data for a review. Anales Jardin Botanico de Madrid, 44: 319-348.
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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.