Brachystelma volubile Hook.f., 1885:65
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1881
Rediscovered in 22 November 2011
Distribution
Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hooker, J. D. (1885). The Flora of British India. Vol. 4. L. Reeve & Co. Ltd., London. p. 65.
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 [691].
Rajakullayiswamy, K. R., Sandhyarani, S., Karuppusamy, S. and Pullaiah, T. (2012). The rediscovery of Brachystelma volubile (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). Rheedea 22(2): 107-110.
Brachystelma swazicum R.A. Dyer
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered before 2013
Distribution
Mbabane (northeast), Swaziland
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Foden, W. & Potter, L. 2005. Brachystelma swazicum R.A.Dyer. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2015.1. Accessed on 2017/02/19
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Brachystelma occidentale Schltr.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Distribution
Cape Peninsula to Bredasdorp, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Boele, C., Kroesen, A.C.J., and Noltee, F.K.A. 1987. Checklist of Brachystelma, Ceropegia, Riocreuxia and the Stapelieae. West Sussex: Southern Reprographics.
Dyer, R.A. 1980. Brachystelma, Ceropegia and Riocreuxia. In: O.A. Leistner (ed). Flora of Southern Africa 27 Part 4:1-88. Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria.
Dyer, R.A. 1983. Ceropegia, Brachystelma and Riocreuxia in southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2000. Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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 (comp.). (1997). Cactus and Succulent Plants: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cactus and Succulent Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. 10 + 212 pp.
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Victor, J.E. 2002. South Africa. In: J.S. Golding (ed), Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.
Victor, J. E. and Peckover, R. (2006). Brachystelma occidentale Schltr. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/04/17
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.
Brachystelma natalense (Schltr.) N.E.Br.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aulostephanus natalensis Schltr.
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1995 or before
Distribution
Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Boele, C., Kroesen, A.C.J., and Noltee, F.K.A. 1987. Checklist of Brachystelma, Ceropegia, Riocreuxia and the Stapelieae. West Sussex: Southern Reprographics.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Ngwenya, M.A., Singh, Y., Crouch, N.R., Scott-Shaw, C.R. and Sikhakhane, T.B. 1995. Brachystelma natalense: rediscovered and redescribed. Aloe 32(2): 44-45.
Oldfield, Sara (comp.). (1997). Cactus and Succulent Plants: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cactus and Succulent Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. 10 + 212 pp.
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Scott-Shaw, C.R. 1999. Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.
Singh, Y., Nicholas, A. and Pooley, E. 1997. Brachystelma natalense. Flowering Plants of Africa 55:96-101.
von Staden, L. & Styles, D. 2016. Brachystelma natalense (Schltr.) N.E.Br. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/04/17
Styles, D. 2006. Some new and interesting records from greater Durban. PlantLife 32:33-35.
Victor, J.E. 2002. South Africa. In: J.S. Golding (ed), Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.
Wragg, P. 2006. Conservation status of threatened milkweeds (Apocynaceae) of the Natal Group Sandstone Grasslands: Brachystelma natalense (Schltr.) N.E.Br., B. pulchellum (Harv.) Schltr., and Schizoglossum peglerae N.E. Br. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Unpublished essay.
Brachystelma maculatum Hook.f.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Distribution
India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Prasad, K. and Venu, P. (2018). Rediscovery and notes on Brachystelma maculatum (Apocynaceae). Rheedea 28(2): 73-77.