Gaertnera quadriseta A.DC. (1845:34)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (WCMC, 1992:221; Walter & Gillett, 1998:505; Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym of G. psychotrioides) (POWO, 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Mauritius, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bosser, J. et al. (eds.). (1976-). Flore des Mascareignes. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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]
Malcomber, S. T. and Taylor, C. M. (2009). A systematic revision of Gaertnera (Rubiaceae, Gaertnereae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96: 575-671.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 27 August 2025]
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.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
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