Aeschynomene ruspoliana Harms

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Contu, 2012)

Last record: 1893 (Contu, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution & Habitat

Ethiopia (southern)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Contu, S. (2012). Aeschynomene ruspoliana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T19892137A20003983. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T19892137A20003983.en. Downloaded on 26 December 2015.

Cufontis, G. (1970). Enumeratio plantarum Aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae: Spermatophyta, pp. 1387-1482. Jardin botanique national de Belgique, Domaine de Bouchout, Meise.

Fräßdorf, Doreen. (n.d.). Liste ausgestorbener Pflanzen der Neuzeit / List of extinct plants in modern times. Available at: https://www.artensterben.de/liste-ausgestorbener-pflanzen/ [Accessed 27 September 2026]

Gillett, J. B. (1958). Trifolium somalense: A clover with tuberous roots. Kew Bulletin 13(3): 444-446.

Hedberg, I. and Edwards, S. (eds.). (1989). Flora of Ethiopia: Volume 3 Pittosporaceae to Araliaceae. Addis Ababa University and University of Uppsala, Addis Ababa and Asmara.

Kelbessa, E., Demissew, S., Woldu, Z. and Edwards, S. (1992). Some threatened endemic plants of Ethiopia. Botany 2000: East and Central Africa, pp. 35-55.

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.

 

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