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Lycopodiophyta (Clubmosses, Firmosses and Quillworts)

 

Order: Isoetales

Family: Isoetaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Isoetes amazonica A.Braun (1880) - (rediscovered) Tapajós river near Santarém municipality, Pará, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes bradei Herter (1949) - October 1921 or later Sudeste, São Paulo [& ?Minas Gerais], Brazil Missing or Extinct Access
             
Isoetes dixitii
Shende. (1945) - (rediscovered) Karanataka & Maharashtra, Western Ghats, India Rediscovered(?) Access
             
Isoetes gardneriana Kunze ex A.Braun (1862) - (rediscovered) Terenos, Mato Grosso do Sul & Dianópolis, Tocantins, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes haussknechtii Troìa & Greuter (2015) Greek quillwort (rediscovered) Greece Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes heldreichii Wettst. (1886) Pindus quillwort July 1885 Pindos Mountains, Greece Missing or Extinct Access
             

Isoetes louisianensis

Thieret (1973) Louisiana quillwort (rediscovered) Alabama, Louisiana & Mississippi, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes philippinensis Merr. & L.M. Perry (1940) kabauing-bauing, lunsay (rediscovered) Olangu river, Barangay Angayen, Municipality of Baloi, Lanao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines Rediscovered Access
             
Isoetes sampathkumarnii L.N.Rao (1944) - ? Bangalore district, Karnataka, India Extinct or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Isoetes sinensis Palmer (1927) Narrow quillwort - China (Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang), Korea & Japan Erroneously listed as Missing Access

 

 

Order: Lycopodiales

Family: Lycopodiaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile

Huperzia changii

(T.Y.Hsieh) Ralf Knapp (2014) Chang's hanging firmoss 2010 eastern Taiwan Extinct in the Wild Access
             
Huperzia rubra (Cham. & Schltdl.) Trevis. (1875 "1874") Red hanging firmoss (rediscovered) Bahia & Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Selaginellales

Family: Selaginellaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Selaginella orizabensis Hieron. (1902)   1855 Veracruz, Mexico Extinct Access
             

Selaginella serratosquarrosa

Quansah (1989) - 1948 Cameroon Missing Access
             

Selaginella serrulata

(Desv.) Spring (1849) - 1890's Mauritius & Réunion, Mascarene Islands Extinct Access
             

Selaginella sparsifolia

(Desv.) Badré (2008) - 1813 Mauritius, Mascarene Islands Extinct Access

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 3 (18.75%)
Missing 1 (6.25%)
Extinct in the Wild 1 (6.25%)
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 6 (37.5%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Reintroduced 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 0
Erroneously listed 1 (6.25%)
Uncertain status 4 (25%)
   
Total 16

 

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