Begonia brevicaulis A.DC. (1859:134)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: c.1864 (Nayar & Sastry, 1990:68)
Since rediscovered (Uddin, 2007 fide Humphreys et al., 2019)
Still listed as extinct by (Lasushe et al., 2022).
Distribution
Assam, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Camfield, Rebecca and Hughes, Mark. (2018). A revision and one new species of Begonia L. (Begoniaceae, Cucurbitales) in Northeast India. European Journal of Taxonomy 396: 1-116. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.396
Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
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]
Lasushe, Khrote-u et al. (2022). A comprehensive checklist of threatened plants of Meghalaya, Northeast India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 15(3): 435-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2022.03.008
Mao, A. A. and Dash, S. S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). (1990, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 3. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 271 pp., 8 pls. [p. 68]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Uddin, A. (2007). Distribution and status of Indian Begonia L. species. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31: 591-597.
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.