Crudia zeylanica (Thwaites) Benth. (1865:314)
Sri Lanka legume tree
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Detarium zeylanicum Thwaites in Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 414 (1864); Apalatoa zeylanica (Thwaites) Taub. in Bot. Centralbl. 47: 395 (1891); Touchiroa zeylanica (Thwaites) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 211 (1891)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1868 (Barstow & Attanayake, 2021)
Rediscovered in 2019 (Barstow & Attanayake, 2021)
IUCN status: Critically Endangered
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 26/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022), unaware of its rediscovery.
Distribution
Sri Lanka
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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