Silene tomentosa Otth (1824:383)
Gibraltar campion
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Silene mollissima var. tomentosa (Otth) Pérez Lara in Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 25: 194 (1896); Silene velutina var. tomentosa (Otth) Pau in Bol. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 24: 269 (1924); Silene gibraltarica Boiss. in Elench. Pl. Nov.: 20 (1838); Silene mogadorensis var. gibraltarica (Boiss.) Ball in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 16: 361 (1877); Silene mogadorensis subsp. gibraltarica (Boiss.) Maire in É.Jahandiez & al., Cat. Pl. Maroc 2: 233 (1932); Silene mollissima subsp. gibraltarica (Boiss.) Maire in É.Jahandiez & al., Cat. Pl. Maroc 2: 233 (1932)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1800's (Domina et al., 2015)
Rediscovered in 1994 on Gibraltar (Linares et al., 1996)
Distribution
Gibraltar & Spain
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Aedo, Carlos, Medina Domingo, Leopoldo, Barberá, Patricia and Fernández-Albert, M. (2015). Extinctions of vascular plants in Spain. Nordic Journal of Botany 33(1): 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.00575
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.
Greuter, Werner. (1991). Botanical diversity, endemism, rarity, and extinction in the Mediterranean area: an analysis based on the published volumes of Med-Checklist. Botanika Chronika 10: 63-79.
Greuter, Werner. (1994). Extinctions in Mediterranean areas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Ser. B, 344: 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0049
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]
Jeanmonod, D. (1984). Révision de la section Siphonomorpha Otth du genre Silene L. (Caryophyllaceae) en Mediterranée occidentale II: le groupe du S. mollissima. Candollea 39: 195-259.
Linares, L. (1998). Silene tomentosa Otth in DC. Gibraltar campion. A description based on observations of the species in the wild, and on plants grown from seed at the Alameda Botanical Gardens. Almoraima 19: 257-259.
Linares, L. et al. (1996). The flowers of Gibraltar. – Flora Calpensis ed., Madrid.
Talavera, S. (1990). Silene L. – In: Castroviejo, S. et al. (eds), Flora Iberica 2: 313-406. [p. 376]
Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
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