Genista melia Boiss. (1849:2)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Uncertain (see below)
Three recent sources give three different statuses for this species:
1. Considered as an extinct Greek endemic by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
2. Extant in Turkey according to (Abeli et al., 2021).
3. A synonym of G. scorpius scorpius (POWO, 2023).
Distribution
Milos, Cyclades, Greece (Domina et al., 2015) [& Troad, Anatolia? (Greuter et al., 1989; doubtful record: Domina et al., 2015; Euro+Med PlantBase, n.d.)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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
Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Berlin: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. [Englera 31].
Domina, Gianniantonio, Bazan, Giuseppe, Campisi, Patrizia and Greuter, Werner. (2015). Taxonomy and conservation in Higher Plants and Bryophytes in the Mediterranean Area. Biodiversity Journal 6(1): 197-204.
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Euro+Med PlantBase. (2023). Genista melia. Available at: https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/77f7602a-f9d4-42db-8bd6-799bd2726d2f [Accessed 18 November 2023]
Greuter, W., Burdet, H. M. and Long, G. (1989). Med-Checklist 4. Genève & Berlin.
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]
POWO. (2023). Genista melia Boiss. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 12 November 2023]
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Vladimirov, V., Aybeke, A., Matevski, V. and Tan, K. (2017). New floristic records in the Balkans: 33*. Phytol. Balc. 23: 281-329.
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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