Taverniera sericophylla Balf.f. (1882:510)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1880 (Balfour, 1888 fide Lucas & Synge, 1978:295)
Rediscovered in 1998
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
Socotra (=Soqotra), Yemen
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Balfour, I. B. (1888). Botany of Socotra. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 31: xxxix, 78-79, 244 & t. 19.
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Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 295-296]
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Miller, A. G. and Morris, M. (2004). Ethnoflora of Soqotra Archipelago: 1-759. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
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Walter, Kerry Scott 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.
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/