Maytenus lucayana Britton (1906:140)
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, P. and Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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]
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.