Rauvolfia nukuhivensis (Fosberg & Sachet) Lorence & Butaud
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ochrosia nukuhivensis Fosberg & Sachet
Conservation Status
Last record: 8 April 1989?
Rediscovered on 9 April 2004? (still listed as extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019))
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
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References
Original scientific description:
Lorence, David H. and Butaud, Jean-François. (2011). A reassessment of Marquesan Ochrosia and Rauvolfia (Apocynaceae) with two new combinations. PhytoKeys 4: 95-107.
Other references:
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Française avec leur répartition géographique et leur statut IUCN, tirée de la banque de données botaniques NADEAUD (unpublished).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. http://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]
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
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.