Onobrychis richardi Baker (1871:141)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Onobrychis eriophora A.Rich. in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 206 (1848), nom. illeg.; Onobrychis richardii Baker [orth. error used by (Vivero et al., 2006; Humphreys et al., 2019)]
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last record: pre-1847 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 165+ years ago (Vivero et al., 2006)
Distribution
Tigray, Ethiopia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Hedberg, I. and Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
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]
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