Ramosmania rodriguesii Tirvengadum, 1989:14
Café marron
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Tirvengadum, D. D. (1989). Ramosmania rodriguesii, nouvelle rubiacée endémique de Rodrigues (Mascareignes). Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Biogéographie 65(1): 13-20.
Other references:
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Janzen, D.H. (2001). Latent extinctions – the Living Dead, in Levin, S.A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity vol. 3. Academic Press, New York, 689-699.
Magdalena, Carlos. (2004). Ramosmania rodriguesii: New hope for a doomed genus. RBG Kew, School of Horticulture. Unpublished.
Magdalena, Carlos. (2010). Raising the living dead: Ramosmania rodriguesii. Sibbaldia 8: 63-73.
Moutia, S. (1984). Randia heterophylla Balf. F. is not extinct in Rodrigues. Mauritius Institute Bulletin 10, 123.
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Owens, S.J., Jackson, A., Maunder, M., Rudall, P. & Johnson, M.A.T. (1993). The breeding system of Ramosmania heterophylla – dioecy or heterostyly? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 113: 77-86. [Abstract]
Rivers, M., Shaw, K., Beech, E. and Jones, M. (2015). Conserving the World’s Most Threatened Trees: A global survey of ex situ collections. BGCI. Richmond, UK.
Strahm, W. (1983). Rodrigues: can its flora be saved? Oryx 17: 122-125.
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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