Rauvolfia nukuhivensis (Fosberg & Sachet) Lorence & Butaud (2011:102)
Tu’eiao
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ochrosia nukuhivensis Fosberg & Sachet in Micronesica 8: 48 (1972)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 20 June 1921 (Lorence & Butaud, 2011)
Rediscovered on: 20 April 1964 (specimen); 2011 or before (recognition) (both Lorence & Butaud, 2011)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Still listed as Extinct by (Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Humphreys et al., 2019)
Distribution
Nuku Hiva & Ua Huka, Marquesas islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fosberg, F. R. and Sachet, M.-R. (1972). Plants of Southeastern Polynesia 2. Micronesica 8: 43-50.
Other references:
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. (2014). Inventaire et écologie du Tu'eiao (Rauvolfia nukuhivensis), arbre en danger critique d'extinction endémique de l'île de Nuku Hiva (Marquises). Rapport final. Direction de l’environnement. Tahiti (unpublished).
Butaud, J.-F. (2020). Rauvolfia nukuhivensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T35044A43525012. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T35044A43525012.en. Accessed on 17 June 2024.
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Française avec leur répartition géographique et leur statut IUCN, tirée de la banque de données botaniques NADEAUD (unpublished).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). Rauvolfia nukuhivensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T35044A9908175. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T35044A9908175.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]
Lorence, David H. and Butaud, Jean-François. (2011). A reassessment of Marquesan Ochrosia and Rauvolfia (Apocynaceae) with two new combinations. PhytoKeys 4: 95-107.
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POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
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.