Lotus berthelotii Lowe ex Masf. (1881:160)
Trailing lotus, Parrot-beak, Parrot's beak, Trailing parrot's beak, Lotus vine flower, Pelican beak, Coral gem, Pico Paloma ('dove's beak')
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Pedrosia berthelotii (Masf.) Webb ex Masf. in Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 10: 160 (1881); Heinekenia peliorhyncha Webb ex Christ in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 124 (1887), nom. superfl.; Heinekenia berthelotii (Masf.) G.Kunkel in Cuad. Bot. Canaria 22: 9 (1974); Lotus berthelotii var. subglabratus Masf. in Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 10: 161 (1881); Lotus peliorhynchus Hook.f. in Bot. Mag. 110: t. 6733 (1884); Heinekenia peliorhyncha var. subglabrata Christ in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 124 (1887); Lotus atrococcineus Heydt in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 49: 345 (1934)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) or Rediscovered in the Wild
Last wild record: 1884 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:281; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Tenerife, Canary Islands, North Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: Lotus berthelotii in flower, grown at a nursery in Perth, Western Australia. Photo © 2022 Rhianna Harrison. Reproduced with permisison.
Above: Lotus berthelotii in flower and labeled, grown at a nursery in Perth, Western Australia. Photo © 2022 Rhianna Harrison. Reproduced with permisison.
Above: Lotus berthelotii label. Photo © 2022 Rhianna Harrison. Reproduced with permisison.
References
Original scientific description:
Masferrer-Arquimbau, D. R. (1881). Description de la flor y del fruto del Lotus berthelotii. Annales Sociedad Espanola de Historia natural 10: 429-432.
Other references:
André, E. (1895). Lotus peliorhynchus. Revue hort. 67: 308.
Beierkuhnlein, Carl, Walentowitz, Anna and Welss, Walter. (2021). FloCan—A Revised Checklist for the Flora of the Canary Islands. Diversity 13(10): 480. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13100480 [Supplementary Information (S1-S6)]
Bramwell, D. (1980). More 'extinct' species discovered. Threatened Plants Committee Newsletter 6: 15.
Bramwell, D. and Bramwell, Z. I. (1974). Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. London: Stanley Thornes. [pp. 26 and 150, fig. 34.]
Bramwell, D. and Bramwell, Z. I. (2001). Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. Madrid: Editorial Rueda.
Chittenden, F. J. (1956). The RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Ed. 2
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Dobignard, A. and Chatelain, C. (2012). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 4: 1-431. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
Hansen, A. and Sunding, P. (1985). Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 3. revised edition. Sommerfeltia 1: 5-103.
Hooker, J. D. (1884). Lotus peliorhynchus. Curtis's bot. Mag. 110: t . 6733.
Isely, D. (1981). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(3) :1-264 Legum. of the U. S. : III.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 281-282]
Moreno, J. C. coord. (2008). Lista Roja 2008 de la flora vascular española. Dirección General de Medio Natural y Política Forestal (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, y Sociedad Española de Biología de la Conservación de Plantas), Madrid. 86 pp.
Ojeda, Isidro and Santos-Guerra, Arnoldo. (2011). The intersection of conservation and horticulture: bird-pollinated Lotus species from the Canary Islands (Leguminosae). Biodiversity and Conservation 20: 3501-3516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-011-0138-5
Ollerton, J., Cranmer, L., Stelzer, R. J., Sullivan, S. and Chittka, L. (2008). Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants. Nature Proceedings.
Ollerton, J. et al. (2009). Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants. Naturwissenschaften 96: 221-232.
Owens, S. J. (1985). Seed Set in Lotus berthelotii Masferrer. Annals of Botany 55(6): 811-814. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a086960
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 2 November 2024]
Stelzer, R. (2005). Sammelstrategien bei Hummeln ein Vergleich zwischen Insel und Festlandpopulationen. In: Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Würzburg.
Wiersema, J. H. et al. (1990). Legume Nomenclature USDA Germplasm Sys. USDA Tech. Bull. 1757
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