Silene tomentosa Otth
Gibraltar campion
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
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, C., Medina, L., Barberá, P. 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. et al. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Abstract] [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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