Nymphaea thermarum Eb.Fisch.
Pygmy Rwandan water lily
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1987?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Mashyuza, Rwanda (southwest)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Fischer, Eberhard. (1993). Taxonomic results of the BRYOTROP-Expedition to Zaire and Rwanda. Tropical Bryology 8: 13-37.
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. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Juffe, D. (2010). Nymphaea thermarum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (https://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 31 January 2015.
Magdalena, C. (2009). Nymphaea thermarum - The world's tiniest waterlily doesn't grow in water! Water Gardeners International 4: 4.
Povilus, Rebecca A., Losada, Juan M. and Friedman, William E. (2015). Floral biology and ovule and seed ontogeny of Nymphaea thermarum, a water lily at the brink of extinction with potential as a model system for basal angiosperms. Annals of Botany 115(2): 211-226.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2014/01/16/stolen-extinct-water-lily/
https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100254646/kews-codebreaker-mourns-his-lily/