Heterosamara bennae (Jacq.-Fél.) Paiva (1998:127)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Polygala bennae Jacq.-Fél. in Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 10: 440 (1938)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1937 (Canteiro & Cheek, 2019; Couch et al., 2019:12)
Rediscovered in 2019 (Twitter post by Dr. Martin Cheek)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Guinea
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Jacques-Félix, H. (1938). Polygala nouveaux de la Guinée-Française. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 10: 440-444.
Other references:
Canteiro, C. and Cheek, M. (2019). Heterosamara bennae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T85749082A85749085. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T85749082A85749085.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.
Couch, Charlotte, Cheek, Martin, Haba, Pépé M., Molmou, Denise, Williams, Jenny, Magassouba, Sékou, Doumbouya, Saïdou and Diallo, Muhammad Yaya. (2019). Threatened habitats and Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) of Guinea, west Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M. & Keay, R.W.J. (1954-1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 1-828.
Paiva, J.A.R. 1998. Polygalarum Africanarum et Madagascariensium prodromus atque gerontogaei generis Heterosamara Kuntze, a genre Polygala L. segregati et a nobis denuo recepti, synopsis monographica. Fontqueria 50: 1-346.
Sayer, J. A., Harcourt, C. S. and Collins, N. M. 1992. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. IUCN and Simon and Schuster, Cambridge, UK.
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