Afrothismia pachyantha Schltr. (1906:139)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Thismia pachyantha (Schltr.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & C.G.O.Drude, Veg. Erde 9(II): 401 (1908)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Cheek et al., 2019; Murphy et al., 2023:17; POWO, 2023)
Last record: 1905 (Cheek, 2004)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Erroneously claimed to have been rediscovered (Cheek, 2004; Cheek et al., 2021) in October 1995 or October 1996 (Cheek & Williams, 1999), however this record turned out to be mistaken (Cheek, 2004; Franke, 2007; Cheek et al., 2019).
Distribution
Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Schlechter, R. (1906). Burmanniaceae africanae. Botanischer Jahrbücher 38: 140-141.
Other references:
Cable, S. and Cheek, M. (1998). The Plants of Mount Cameroon, A Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek, M. 2004. Afrothismia pachyantha. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T39539A10246294. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T39539A10246294.en. Downloaded on 20 November 2016.
Cheek, Martin and Cable, Stuart. (1997). Plant inventory for conservation management: the Kew-Earthwatch programme in Western Cameroon, 1993-96, pp. 29-38. In: Doolan, Seán. African Rainforests and the Conservation of Biodiversity. Proceedings of the Limbe Conference, Limbe Botanic Garden, Cameroon, 17-24 January 1997. Earthwatch Europe. [p. 34]
Cheek, M., Etuge, M. and Williams, S. (2019). Afrothismia kupensis sp. nov. (Thismiaceae), Critically Endangered, with observations on its pollination and notes on the endemics of Mt Kupe, Cameroon. Blumea 64(1): 158-164.
Cheek, Martin, Ndam, Nouhou and Budden, Andrew. (2021). Notes on the threatened lowland forests of Mt Cameroon and their endemics including Drypetes burnleyae sp. nov., with a key to species of Drypetes sect. Stipulares (Putranjivaceae). Kew Bulletin 76: 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09947-2
Cheek, Martin and Williams, S. (1999). A review of African saprophytic flowering plants. In: Timberlake J, Kativu S (eds.) African plants: biodiversity, taxonomy & uses. Proceedings of the 1997 AETFAT congress, Harare, Zimbabwe: pp. 39-49. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
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Franke, Thassilo. (2007). Miscellaneous Contributions to the Taxonomy and Mycorrhiza of AMF-exploiting Myco-heterotrophic Plants. PhD. thesis. München: Fakultät für Biologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
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Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. and Saunders, R. M. K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (2000). 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Merckx, Vincent S. F. T., Smets, Erik F. and Specht, Chelsea D. (2013). Biogeography and Conservation, pp. 103-156. In: Merckx, Vincent S. F. T. (ed.). Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi. New York, NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5209-6_3
Murphy, Bruce, Onana, Jean Michel, Burgt, Xander M. van der, Ngansop Tchatchouang, Eric, Williams, Jenny, Tchiengué, Barthélemy and Cheek, Martin. (2023). Important Plant Areas of Cameroon. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 302 pp. [automatic download]
POWO. (2023). Afrothismia pachyantha Schltr. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 25 December 2023]
Sainge, Moses N.; Chuyong, George B.; Peterson, A. Townsend. (2017). Endemism and geographic distribution of African Thismiaceae. Plant Ecology and Evolution 150(3): 304-312.
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