Maytenus lucayana Britton (1906:140)
Bahama maytenus
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Monteverdia lucayana (Britton) Biral in Syst. Bot. 42: 689 (2017)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2023; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last record: 1905 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro and Strong, Mark T. (2012). Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: xxv + 1192 pages, 3 maps, 4 tables.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Correll, D. S. and Correll, H. B. (1982). Flora of the Bahama Archipelago. J. Cramer, FL-9490 Vaduz, Germany. 1692 pp.
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]
Popenoe, J. (1984). Threatened plants in the Bahamas. Threatened plant newsletter 13: 11.
POWO. (2023). Maytenus lucayana Britton. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 13 December 2023]
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.