Badula ovalifolia A. DC.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1)
Distribution
Mauritius, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Florens, F. B. Vincent, Baider, Claudia and Bosser, Jean. (2008). On the Mauritian origin of Badula ovalifolia (Myrsinaceae), hitherto believed extinct, with complementary description. Kew Bulletin 63(3): 481-483. [Abstract]
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]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/