Pausinystalia brachythyrsum (K.Schum.) W.Brandt (1922:66)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Corynanthe brachythyrsus K.Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 3: 95 (1901); Pausinystalia macroceras f. brachythyrsum (K.Schum.) N.Hallé in Fl. Gabon 12: 71 (1966)
This taxon is possibly a junior synonym of Corynanthe macroceras (Murphy et al., 2023:16).
Conservation Status
Last record: 1746 (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1998); 1898 (Schumann, 1901; Murphy et al., 2023:16)
Since rediscovered (Onana et al., 2011; Humphreys et al., 2019) if valid (see Murphy et al., 2023:16)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Bipinde, Cameroon (western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
Murphy, Bruce, Onana, Jean Michel, Burgt, Xander M. van der, Ngansop Tchatchouang, Eric, Williams, Jenny, Tchiengué, Barthélemy and Cheek, Martin. (2023). Important Plant Areas of Cameroon. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 302 pp. [automatic download]
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Onana, Jean Michel, Cheek, Martin and Pollard, Benedict John. (2011). Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. 578 pp.
Schumann, Karl Moritz. (1901). Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 3: 95-96.
Stoffelen, P., Robbrecht, E. and Smets, E. (1996). A revision of Corynanthe and Pausinystalia (African Rubiaceae-Coptosapelteae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 287-325.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Pausinystalia brachythyrsum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T36157A9978900. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T36157A9978900.en. Downloaded on 17 September 2016.