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Humboldtia bourdillonii Prain (1904:200)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1894

Rediscovered in 1998 or before

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution

Western Ghats (southern), India

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Balan, A. P. and Predeep, S. V. (2021). Legumes of Kerala, India: a checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(5):  18257-18282. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6475.13.5.18257-18282

Balan, A., Robi, A. and Predeep, S. V. (2019). Notes on the extended distribution of Humboldtia bourdillonii (Fabales: Fabaceae), an Endangered tree legume in the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11(14), 14886-14890.

Ganeshaiah, K. N. (2005). Recovery of endangered and threatened species: Developing a national priority list of plants and insects. Current Science 89(4): 599-600.

Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 161-162]

Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

Ramachandran, V. S., Swarupanandan, K. and Sanjappa, M. (2014). Status and distribution of Humboldtia bourdillonii (Leguminosae), an endangered tree species of the Western Ghats, India. Tropical Ecology 55(1): 85-91.

Ramesh, B.R. and Pascal, J.-P. 1997. Atlas of endemics of the Western Ghats (India). Distribution of tree species in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. Institut Français de Pondichéry.

Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]

Sanjappa, M. (1986). A revision of the genus Humboldtia Vahl (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae). Blumea 31: 329-339.

Sanjappa, M. (1991). Endemic legumes of Western Ghats, pp.30-43. In: C. K. Karunakaran (ed.) The Proceedings of the Symposium on Rare Endangered and Endemic Plants of the Western Ghats. Kerala Forest Department (Wildlife Wing), Thiruvananthapuram.

Sasidharan, N. (1998). Rediscovery of four threatened and possibly extinct endemic tree legumes from Kerala. Higher Plants of Indian Subcontinent 8: 205-213. [Abstract]

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Humboldtia bourdillonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31187A9606349. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31187A9606349.en. Downloaded on 27 August 2016.

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