Astragalus nitidiflorus Jiménez & Pau (1910:130)
Tallante's chickpea
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1909 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Rediscovered in 2003 (Sánchez Gómez et al., 2005)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Still listed as Extinct by (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024).
Distribution
Spain (southeastern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pau, C. (1910). Astragalus nitidiflorus Jiménez et Pau n. sp. Boletín de la Sociedad Aragonesa de Ciencias Naturales 9: 130-131.
Other references:
Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1
Aedo, Carlos, Medina Domingo, Leopoldo, Barberá, Patricia and Fernández-Albert, M. (2015). Extinctions of vascular plants in Spain. Nordic Journal of Botany 33(1): 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.00575
Aizpuru, I. et al. (2000). Lista roja de la flora vascular española (valoración según categorí as IUCN). Conserv. Veg. 6(extra): 1-39.
Cano-Castillo, M., Serrano-Martínez, F. and Casas, J.L. (2009). In vitro propagation of Astragalus nitidiflorus (Leguminosae), an endemic and endangered species from south-east of Spain. Acta Horticulturae 812: 545-550. [Abstract]
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
CPC. (1992). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
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]
Martínez-Sánchez, Juan J. et al. (2011). Life history and demographic features of Astragalus nitidiflorus, a critically endangered species. Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 206(5): 423-432. [Abstract]
Podlech, D. (1999). Astragalus L. In: S. Talavera et al. (eds), Flora Iberica, VII (I) Leguminosae (partim), pp. 279-338. CSIC, Madrid.
Podlech, D. (2008). The genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) in Europe with exclusion of the former Soviet Union. Feddes Repertorium 119(5-6): 310-387. doi:10.1002/fedr.200811171
Podlech, D. and Zarre, S. (2013). A taxonomic revision of the genus Astragalus L. (Leguminosae) in the Old World 1: 1-822. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
Sánchez Gómez, P. et al. (2005). Lugares de interés botánico de la Región de Murcia. – Dirección General de Medio Ambiente, Región de Murcia.
Sánchez Gómez, P., Carrión Vilches, M. Á. and Galicia Herbada, D. (2006). Astragalus nitidiflorus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61652A12533286. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61652A12533286.en . Downloaded on 19 September 2015.
Sánchez Gómez, P., Carrión Vilches, M.A., Hernández González, A. and Guerra Montes, J. (2002). Libro rojo de la flora silvestre protegida de la Región de Murcia. 2 vols. Consejería de Agricultura, Agua y Medio Ambiente, D.G. del Medio Natural, Murcia.
Segura, Francisco et al. (2014). Could recently locally extinct population patches of Astragalus nitidiflorus regenerate from the soil seed bank? Journal of Arid Environments 110: 75-78. [Abstract]
Segura, Francisco, Vicente, M. J., Franco, J. A. and Martínez-Sánchez, J. J. (In Press, 2015). Effects of maternal environmental factors on physical dormancy of Astragalus nitidiflorus seeds (Fabaceae), a critically endangered species of SE Spain. Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants. doi:10.1016/j.flora.2015.09.001 [Abstract]
Talavera, S. (1999). Sobre el tratamiento de la tribu Astragaleae Bercht. & J. Presl (Papilioideae, Leguminosae) en "Flora Iberica". Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 57(1): 218-220.
Vázquez, F. M., Domínguez, E. and Devesa, J. A. (1991). Nueva localidad de Astragalus nitidiflorus Jiménez y Pau en España. Acta Botanica Malacitana 16(2): 486-490.
Vicente, María J. et al. (2011). Genetic diversity of Astragalus nitidiflorus, a critically endangered endemic of SE Spain, and implications for its conservation. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 39(3): 175-182. [Abstract]
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