Psoralea cataracta C.H.Stirt.
Waterfall fountainbush
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hallia filiformis Harv.
Conservation Status
Last record: late 1700's (Raimondo & Stirton, 2008); 1804
Rediscovered on 24 October 2019 (source)
Distribution
Tulbagh, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. (2009). Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Raimondo, D. & Stirton, C.H. 2008. Psoralea cataracta C.H.Stirt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/06/08.
Swingler, Helen. (2023, July 21). PhD graduand clocks vast distances on foot collecting 150 taxa, including 50 undescribed species. University of Cape Town (news story). Available at: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/news/graduation/2023/july/-article/2023-07-21-phd-graduand-clocks-vast-distances-on-foot-collecting-150-taxa-including-50-undescribed-species [Accessed 12 October 2023]
Wild, Sarah. (5 November, 2019). Cape student rediscovers third “extinct” plant species – and expects to find more. Business Insider South Africa, available at: https://www.news24.com/news24/bi-archive/extinct-plant-species-sweet-pea-stellenbosch-student-nature-2019-11 [Accessed 15 August 2020]
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.
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-extinct-species-rediscovered-winterhoek-mountains.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoralea_cataracta
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35563154