Ophiorrhiza barnesii C.E.C. Fisch.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1937 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:331); 1939
Rediscovered in ?
Still listed as extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Distribution
India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fischer, C. E. C. (1939). New or little-known plants from southern India: X. Bulletin of the Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). 1939: 248-249.
Other references:
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [690].
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]
Kumar, E.S.S., P.E. Roy & S.M. Shareef. (2013). Rediscovery of Ophiorrhiza barnesii C.E.C. Fisch. (Rubiaceae) from the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(7): 4115-4117.
Nair, Akhilesh S. V. et al. (2023). The identity of Ophiorrhiza barnesii (Rubiaceae) – a critically endangered and endemic species of the southern Western Ghats, India. Rheedea 33(2): 87-91.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 331-332]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
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.