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Ochrosia tahitensis Laness. ex Pichon (1947:207)

Tamore Mou'a

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered [by implication] (Meyer, 2020) or Erroneously listed as Extinct (Florence, 1998; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022)

 

Distribution

Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (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]

Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.

Butaud J.-F. and Meyer, J.-Y. (2004). Plans de conservation pour des plantes menacées et/ou protégées en Polynésie française. Contribution à la Biodiversité de Polynésie française. Service du Développement Rural, Délégation à la Recherche, Papeete.

Florence, J. (1996). Liste des espèces endémiques de Polynésie Française avec leur répartition géographique et leur statut IUCN, tirée de la banque de données botaniques NADEAUD (unpublished).

Florence, J. (1998). Ochrosia tahitensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T35045A9908232. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T35045A9908232.en. Downloaded on 17 September 2016.

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]

Meyer, J.-Y. (2020). Ochrosia tahitensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T35045A117415189. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T35045A117415189.en. Accessed on 17 June 2024.

Meyer, J.-Y. and Butaud, J.-F. (2009). The impacts of rats on the endangered native flora of French Polynesia (Pacific Islands): Drivers of plant extinction or coup de grâce species?. Biological Invasions 11: 1569-1585.

Meyer, Jean-Yves, Pouteau, Robin and Vincent, Florian. (2022). Assessing habitat suitability for the translocation of Ochrosia tahitensis (Apocynaceae), a critically endangered endemic plant from the island of Tahiti (South Pacific). Journal for Nature Conservation 68: 126198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126198

Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

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.

W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.

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