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Vicia dennesiana H.C.Watson

 

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022)

Last record: 1848 (wild); 1922 (cultivation)

 

This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 10/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).

 

Distribution

São Miguel Island, Azores

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Abeli, Thomas et al. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1

Albani Rocchetti, G., Carta, A., Mondoni, A. et al. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]

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]

Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1995). Flora Europaea electonic dataset

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.

 

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