Pisonia floridana Britton ex Small
Rock Key devil's-claws
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Considered a synonym of Guapira discolor (Knapp et al., 2020)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym)
Was rediscovered in 1995 before synonymisation.
Distribution
Florida, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
CPC (1990). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
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]
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Gluesenkamp, Daniel and Kennedy, Kathryn. (2020). Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 512-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1146-1