Dillenia triquetra (Rottb.) Gilg (1893:123)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms (homotypic): Wormia triquetra Rottb. in Nye Saml. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 2: 532 (1783); Lenidia triquetra (Rottb.) Poir. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 25: 448 (1822)
Synonyms (heterotypic): Dillenia dentata Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 1: 201 (1791); Wormia dentata (Thunb.) DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 434 (1817); Lenidia dentata Poir. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 25: 448 (1822); Lenidia madagascariensis Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 3: 330 (1813); Wormia madagascariensis (Poir.) DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 433 (1817); Wormia madagascariensis var. oblongifolia DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 433 (1817); Wormia madagascariensis var. rotundifolia DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 433 (1817); Wormia madagascariensis f. typica H.Perrier in Notul. Syst. (Paris) 12: 211 (1946), not validly publ.; Wormia madagascariensis f. guillotii (Hochr.) H.Perrier in Fl. Madagasc. 132: 6 (1951); Clugnia volupis Comm. ex DC. in Syst. Nat. 1: 433 (1817); Wormia artocarpifolia Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20: 88 (1883); Dillenia artocarpifolia (Baker) Martelli in Malesia 3: 163 (1887); Dillenia madagascariensis (Poir.) Martelli in Malesia 3: 163 (1887); Dillenia guillotii Hochr. in Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 11-12: 70 (1908)
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as possibly extinct (WCMC, 1998)
IUCN RedList status: Least Concern
The 1998 IUCN RedList assessment for this species gave its distribution as Sri Lanka and stated that it "is either extremely rare or possibly extinct" (WCMC, 1998). The new assessment for the species has it as a Malagasy species that is of Least Concern (58 known subpopulations) (Razafiniary, 2020).
Distribution
Madagascar (contra WCMC, 1998)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Green, M. J. B. and Gunawardena, E. R. N. (comps.). (1997). Designing an optimum protected areas system for Sri Lanka's natural forests. Prepared by IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. (unpublished).
Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. and Gunatilleke, C. V. S. (1991). Threatened woody endemics of the wet lowlands of Sri Lanka and their conservation. Biological Conservation 55(1): 17-36.
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Razafiniary, V. (2020). Dillenia triquetra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T33510A166509820. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T33510A166509820.en. Accessed on 19 November 2023.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1998). Dillenia triquetra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T33510A9788427. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T33510A9788427.en. Downloaded on 29 April 2017.