Ardisia marcelianum Govaerts (1994:9)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Afrardisia oligantha Gilg & G.Schellenb. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 517 (1912); Ardisia oligantha (Gilg & G.Schellenb.) Taton in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 49: 109 (1979), nom. illeg.
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Murphy et al., 2023:16)
Last record: c.1906 (Murphy et al., 2023:16)
Distribution
Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
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]
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Onana, Jean Michel. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
Onana, Jean Michel, Cheek, Martin and Pollard, Benedict John. (2011). Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon: IUCN Global Assessments. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK: Kew Publishing. 578 pp.
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