Valerianella affinis Balf.f. (1882:837)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
This species is a junior homonym of Valeriana affinis Opiz., and the replacement name Valeriana extincta was erected for it (Christenhusz et al., 2018)
Conservation Status
Invalid (junior homonym) (Christenhusz et al., 2018)
Last record: 1888
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 33/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
Jebel Ma’alih, Socotra (=Soqotra), Yemen
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Balfour, Isaac Bayley. (1882). Diagnoses plantarum novarum et imperfecte descriptarum Phanerogamarum Socotrensium. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 11(12): 834-842 [837].
Other references:
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
Christenhusz, M. M., Fay, M. and Byng, J. W. (2018). The global flora: special edition: GLOVAP nomenclature part 1 (Vol. 4). Plant Gateway Ltd.
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]
Miller, A. (2004). Valerianella affinis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T45081A10970572. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T45081A10970572.en. Downloaded on 19 November 2016.
WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/