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Astragalus nitidiflorus Jiménez & Pau, 1910

Tallante's chickpea

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1909

Rediscovered in 2003 (Sánchez Gómez et al., 2005)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

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 et al. (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, C., Medina, L., Barberá, P. 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]

CPC (1992). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.

Humphreys, Aelys M. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Abstract] [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.

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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