Erythrina schliebenii Harms (year?)
Lake Latumba erythrina
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 2001-2008
Rediscovered in 2011
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Rediscovered twice: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141121-the-rarest-plants-in-the-world?ocid=fbert
Distribution
Tanzania
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Clarke, G. Philip, Burgess, N. D., Mbago, F. M., Mligo, C., Mackinder, B. and Gereau, R. E. (2011). Two ‘Extinct’ Trees Rediscovered Near Kilwa, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 100(1-2): 133-140.
Gillett, J.B., Polhill, R.M. and Verdcourt, B. 1971. Leguminosae Part 4; Papilionoideae (1) & (2). In: E. Milne-Redhead and R.M. Polhill (eds), Flora of Tropical East Africa, Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations, London.
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]
IUCN SSC East African Plants Red List Authority. 2012. Erythrina schliebenii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T32916A2827908. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T32916A2827908.en. Downloaded on 07 May 2017.
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
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.
W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/03/29/extinct-trees-rediscovered-tan/
http://eol.org/pages/644426/details
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/mobot-scientists-help-rediscover-two-tree-species-thought-be-extinct#stream/0
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