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Poales

 

Family: Bromeliaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Aechmea cymosopaniculata Baker   1856 Aragua State, Venezuela Missing Access
             
Aechmea geminiflora (Harms) L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer   1933 Tungurahua Province, Ecuador Missing Access
             
Aechmea serrata
(Linnaeus) Mez   ? Martinique Extinct or extinct in the wild Access
             
Billbergia buchholtzii Mez   ? Brazil Extinct in the wild? Access
             
Canistropsis elata (E. Pereira & Leme) Leme   ? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Extinct in the wild Access
             
Cryptanthus bivittatus (Hook.) Regel   (rediscovered) Pernambuco, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Cryptanthus diversifolius Beer   ? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Cryptanthus fosterianus L.B.Sm.   ? Brazil Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Cryptanthus lacerdae Van Geert   ? Bahia, Brazil Extinct in the wild? Access
             
Dyckia marnier-lapostollei marnier-lapostollei L.B.Sm.   (rediscovered) Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Guzmania lepidota
(Andrè) Andrè ex Mez   June 1876 Ecuador Missing Access
             
Guzmania poortmanii (Andrè) Andrè ex Mez   1889 Ecuador Missing Access
             
Guzmania striata L.B.Sm.   1956 Ecuador Missing Access
             
Hechtia texensis S.Watson   (rediscovered) Mexico & Texas, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Hohenbergia correia-araujoi Pereira & Moutinho   (rediscovered) Bahia, Brazil Rediscovered in the wild Access
             
Neoregelia binotii (É.Morren) L.B.Sm.   ? Brazil Missing Access
             
Neoregelia pineliana (Lem.) L.B.Sm.   ? Brazil Extinct Access
             

Nidularium utriculosum

Ule   <60 years ago Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Missing Access
             
Pitcairnia elliptica Mez & Sodiro   - Ecuador Rediscovered Access
             
Pitcairnia glymiana K.Koch   ? Caribbean? Extinct Access
             
Pitcairnia undulata Scheidw.   (rediscovered) Mexico Rediscovered Access
             
Vriesea maculosa Mez, 1913   - Bahia, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Vriesea rectifolia Rauh.   - Mata Atlantica, Brazil Missing Access
             
Waltillia hatschbachii (L.B.Sm. & Read) Leme, Barfuss & Halbritt   - Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Cyperaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile

Bulbostylis bodardii

S.S.Hooper - 1948 Guinea (& Senegal?) Missing Access
             
Bulbostylis neglecta (Hemsl.) C.B.Clarke Neglected tuft sedge - St. Helena Rediscovered Access
             
Bulbostylis warei (Torr.) C.B.Clarke   (rediscovered) Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina & South Carolina Rediscovered Access
             
Carex aboriginum
M.E.Jones   - Adams County (near Goodrich & the Indian Valley area), Idaho (western), USA Rediscovered Access
             

Carex × christii

Boeckeler (1890) - ? Tamil Nadu, India Uncertain Access
             

Carex fuscifructus

C.B.Clarke (1894) - 1877 Assam, India Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Carex kucyniakii Raymond, 1955   - Vietnam Rediscovered Access
             
Carex lapazensis C.B.Clarke   1864 near La Paz, Bolivia Missing Access
             
Carex paupera Nelmes   ? Victoria, Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Carex repanda C.B.Clarke   (rediscovered) India Rediscovered Access
             

Carex vicinalis

Boott (1867) - 1867 or before Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India Missing Access
             
Carex wahuensis herbstii T.Koyama   1995 Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Cladium drummondii C.B.Clarke   ? Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Costularia xipholepis Baker, 1877   - Mahé Island, Seychelles Rediscovered Access
             
Cyperus chionocephalus
(Chiov.) Chiov. ex Chiarugi   1939 Ethiopia Missing Access
             
Cyperus kyllingiformis Lye   ? Kenya Missing Access
             
Cyperus multifolius Kunth.   early 1800's Ecuador Missing Access
             
Cyperus neokunthianus Kükenth.   1980 Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Cyperus pennatiformis Kük.   (rediscovered) Hawaiian Islands, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Cyperus pilosus polyantha C.B. Clarke, 1884   1886 Bangladesh Missing Access
             
Cyperus rockii Kük.   1900 Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Cyperus scott-elliotii Govaerts   ? Kenya Missing Access
             
Eleocharis bermudiana Britton Bermuda spike rush - Bermuda Rediscovered Access
             
Eleocharis brachycarpa Svenson Shortfruit spikerush ? Mexico & Texas, USA Extinct Access
             
Eleocharis lepta C.B.Clarke   1897 Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Fimbristylis compacta Turrill   (rediscovered) Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Fimbristylis leptoclada takamineana (Ohwi) T.Koyama   ? Nansei-shoto, Japan Extinct Access
             
Fimbristylis sachetiana Fosberg   ? Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands Missing Access
             
Fuirena repens Boeckeler   - Mexico Rediscovered Access
             
Isolepis bulbifera (Boeck.) Muasya   pre-1950 Cape Flats, Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Isolepis pusilla Kunth.   - Cape Flats to Bokkeveld Escarpment, Western Cape Province, South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Kyllinga chrysanthoides Mtot.   1977 Burundi Missing Access
             
Kyllinga melanosperma hexalata Lye   1969 Uganda Missing Access
             
Lipocarpha mangarevica H.St.John   ? Mangareva, Tuamotu Archipelago Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Mariscus kunthianus
Gaudich.   ? Hawaiian Islands, USA ? Access
             
Rhynchospora hildebrandtii Boeckeler   1880 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Rhynchospora solitaria
Harper (1901)   (rediscovered) Georgia, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Schoenoplectiella perrieri (Cherm.) Lye   1933 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Schoenus acuminatus R.Br.   (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Schoenus natans (F.Muell.) Benth.   - Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Scleria anomala (Steud.) J.Raynal   ? Mauritius Extinct Access
             
Scleria chevalieri J.Raynal   1929 Senegal Extinct Access
             
Scleria mutoensis Nakai   ? Korean Peninsula Extinct Access
             
Tetraria australiensis C.B. Clarke   - Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Tetraria paludosa Levyns   1945 Cape Peninsula/Camps Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Trichophorum scabriculme (Beetle) J.R.Starr, Lév.-Bourret & B.A. Ford   - Lào Cai Province, Vietnam Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Ecdeiocoleaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Eriocaulaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Comanthera circinnata (Bong.) L.R.Parra & Giul.   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Eriocaulon adamesii Meikle   1967 Liberia & Sierra Leone Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon barba-caprae Fyson   ? India Extinct Access
             
Eriocaulon barbeyanum Ruhland   (rediscovered) India Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Eriocaulon caesium Griseb.   1867 Trinidad & Tobago Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon cauliferum
Makino   ? Tatara-numa, Gunma Prefecture, Kantō region, Honshu, Japan Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon echinospermoideum Ruhland   ? Cuba Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon fergusonii (Moldenke) S.M.Phillips   ? Colombo and Galle districts, Sri Lanka Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon heleocharioides Satake, 1939   1994 or later Japan Extinct in the wild Access
             
Eriocaulon hildebrandtii Körn. ex Ruhland   1880 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon inundatum Moldenke   1943 Senegal Extinct Access
             

Eriocaulon irregulare

Meikle - 1962 Guinea Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon johnstonii Ruhland   ? Mauritius, Mascarene Islands Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon jordanii (Moldenke) Meikle   1950's Sierra Leone Extinct Access
             
Eriocaulon obtriangulare Kimp.   1967 Côte d'Ivoire Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon parvicapitulatum Moldenke   1914 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Eriocaulon rouxianum Steud.   ? India Extinct Access
             
Eriocaulon seticuspe Ohwi   5 October 1952 or later a wetland in Kawanami-town, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Lachnocaulon cubense Ruhland   ? Cuba Missing Access
             
Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp.   1959 DR Congo Missing Access
             
Mesanthemum tuberosum Lecomte, 1909   - Guinea, Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus argillicola
Silveira   May 1910 Brazil Missing Access
             
Paepalanthus batatalensis Silveira   April 1905 Brazil Missing Access
             

Paepalanthus cipoensis

Silveira   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus coutoensis Moldenke   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus decussus Körn.   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus elatus (Bong.) Körn.   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus gomesii Silveira   ? Brazil Missing Access
             
Paepalanthus ithyphyllus (Mart.) Walp.   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus moedensis Silveira   May 1910 Brazil Missing Access
             
Paepalanthus pachyphyllus Körn. (1863)   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Paepalanthus pallidus Silveira   December 1906 Brazil Missing Access
             
Paepalanthus stuetzelii Hensold   (rediscovered) Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Flagellariaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Joinvilleaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Juncaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Juncus griscomii Fernald   ? ? Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Juncus leiospermus F.J.Herm.   (rediscovered) California, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Juncus pervetus Fernald Blunt-flower rush ? Massachusetts, USA Extinct Access

 

 

Family: Mayacaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Poaceae (Grasses)

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Amphibromus whitei Hubb, 1941 Swamp wallaby grass 25 October 1933? Roma, Maranoa District, Queensland, Australia Missing Access
             

Anadelphia funerea

(Jacq.-Fél.) Clayton - 1937 Guinea Missing Access
             
Andropogon benthamianus Steud.   1841-1843 Ecuador Missing Access
             

Andropogon incomptus

Clayton - 1956 Guinea Missing Access
             
Anomochloa marantoidea Brongn.   (rediscovered) Bahia, Brazil Rediscovered Access
             
Arundinella kerrii Teerawat. & Sungkaew   1 May 1932 Thailand Missing Access
             
Avena breviaristata Barratte ex Trab.   ? Hauts Plateaux, Algeria Missing Access
             

Bothriochloa woodrovii

(Hook.f.) A.Camus (1931) - 1891 or 1894 or 1960 Maharashtra, India Missing Access
             
Brachiaria fragrans A. Camus   1960 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Bromus andringitrensis A. Camus   1922 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Bromus brachystachys Hornung   (rediscovered) Western Asia Rediscovered Access
             
Bromus bromoideus (Lej.) Crép. (1867) The Brome of the Ardennes, Ardennes brome, Brome des Ardennes 1930 Belgium, France & Luxembourg Extinct or Extinct in the wild Access
             
Bromus interruptus (Hack.) Druce (1895) Interrupted brome - England Reintroduced into the wild Access
             
Bromus javorkae Pénzes   ? Egypt Extinct Access
             
Bromus verticillatus Cav. (1801)   ? UK Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Calamagrostis nubila Louis-Marie   ? North America Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Cenchrus agrimonioides laysanensis F.Br.   1964 Kure, Laysan & Midway, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Chasechloa egregia (Mez) A. Camus., 1948   1840's-1850's Madagascar Missing Access
             
Chloris texensis
Nash. Texas windmill grass (rediscovered) Texas, USA Rediscovered Access
             

Ctenium sesquiflorum

Clayton - 1945 Guinea Missing Access
             
Deyeuxia abscondita
T.Macfarlane, 2020 Preston bentgrass, Hidden deyeuxia 8 December 1877 Preston River, Western Australia, Australia Missing Access
             
Deyeuxia appressa
Vickery, 1940   1941 New South Wales, Australia Missing Access
             
Deyeuxia drummondii (Steud.) Vickery, 1940 Drummond's grass (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Deyeuxia lawrencei Vickery Lawrence's bentgrass c.1831 Tasmania (Launceston area?), Australia Extinct Access
             
Deyeuxia simlensis Bor (1941)   ? India Extinct or invalid (synonym) Access
             
Digitaria filiformis laeviglumis (Fernald) Wipff Slender crabgrass ? New Hampshire, USA Extinct Access
             
Dimeria kerrii Teerawat. & Sungkaew   3 January 1928 Thailand Missing Access
             
Dissanthelium californicum (Nutt.) Benth., 1881 Catalina grass - Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Elymus multiflorus kingianus (Endl.) de Lange & R.O.Gardner Phillip Island wheat grass ? Phillip Island, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Elymus nepalensis (Melderis) Melderis   (rediscovered) India & Nepal Rediscovered Access
             
Elymus russellii (Melderis) Cope   ? Pakistan Missing Access
             
Eragrostis deflexa Hitchc. Pacific lovegrass ? Hawaiian Islands, USA ? Access
             
Eragrostis fosbergii
Whitney   1996 Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Eragrostis hosakai O. Deg.   ? Molokai, Hawaiian Islands, USA Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Eragrostis mauiensis Hitchc.   pre-1872 Lanai & Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Eragrostis rottleri Stapf   (rediscovered) India Rediscovered Access
             
Eriochloa michauxii simpsonii (Hitchc.) Hitchc. Simpson’s cupgrass ? Florida, USA Extinct Access
             
Eriochrysis rangacharii C.E.C.Fisch.   (rediscovered) India Rediscovered Access
             
Festuca archeri E.B.Alexeev, 1987 Archer's fescue ? Tasmania, Australia Missing Access
             
Festuca benthamiana Vickery   (rediscovered) South Australia & Victoria, Australia Rediscovered Access
             

Festuca decolorata

Markgr.-Dann. (1981)   (rediscovered) Mount Uludağ, Turkey Rediscovered Access
             

Festuca masatierrae

Röser & Tkach   ? Juan Fernández Islands Extinct Access
             
Festuca molokaiensis Soreng, P.m. Peterson & Catalán   2009 Molokai, Hawaiian Islands, USA Missing Access
             
Glyceria drummondii (Steud.) C.E.Hubb., 1934 Nangetty grass 2000-2004 north of Mingenew, Western Australia, Australia Missing Access
             
Glyphochloa divergens divergens (Hack.) Clayton (1981)   (rediscovered) India Rediscovered Access
             
Gymnopogon floridanus Swallen   ? Florida or Georgia (or both), USA Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Helictochloa hackelii (Henriq.) Romero Zarco (2011)   (rediscovered) Portugal Rediscovered Access
             
Helictotrichon quinquesetum (Steud.) Schweick.   1800's Table Mountain, Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Heterachne baileyi C.E.Hubb.   (rediscovered) Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Heteropholis benoistii A. Camus   1953 Madagascar Missing Access
             

Holcus notarisii

Nyman (1855) Bambagione di De Notaris very late 1800's Liguria, Italy Extinct if valid Access
             
Homopholis belsonii C.E.Hubb.   (rediscovered) New South Wales & Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Hubbardia heptaneuron Bor, 1951   - India Rediscovered Access
             
Isachne dimyloides Bor, 1949   - West Bengal (Darjeeling district) & Assam (Cachar district), India Rediscovered Access
             

Isachne guineensis

Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - 1956 Guinea Missing Access
             
Lachnagrostis adamsonii adamsonii
(Vickery) S.W.L.Jacobs Adamson’s blowngrass - Victoria, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Lachnagrostis drummondiana Trin.   ? Western Australia, Australia Missing Access
             
Lachnagrostis limitanea (J.M.Black) S.W.L.Jacobs, 2001 Spalding blown grass - Northern Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Leptagrostis schimperiana (Hochst.) C.E.Hubb.   1853 Ethiopia Extinct Access
             
Loudetiopsis baldwinii (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps   1947 Guinea Missing Access
             
Panicum crystallinum Judz. & Voronts.   1963 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Panicum inconspicuum Voronts.   1964 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Panicum norfolkianum Nees ex Endl.   ? Norfolk Island, Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Panicum pearsonii F.Bolus   1913 Great Karasberg, Namibia Missing Access
             
Pappophorum pappiferum (Lam.) Kuntze   ? Cuba Missing Access
             
Parahyparrhenia bellariensis (Hack.) Clayton   (rediscovered) Andhra Pradesh, India Rediscovered Access
             
Paspalidium tuyamae Ohwi   - Bonin Islands, Japan Rediscovered Access
             
Paspalum amphicarpum
Ekman   ? Cuba Missing Access
             
Paspalum batianoffii B.K.Simon, 1992   ? Port Curtis district, Statue Bay, 6.5 km south-east of Yeppoon, Central Queensland Missing Access
             
Paspalum jimenezii Chase   (rediscovered) Costa Rica, Panama & Venezuela Rediscovered Access
             
Pentameris longiglumis (Nees) Steud.   (rediscovered) Table Mountain, South Africa Missing Access
             
Piptophyllum welwitschii (Rendle) C.E.Hubb.   May 1857 Pungo-Andongo & Tunda Quilombo, Angola Missing Access
             
Pleuropogon oregonus Chase Oregon semaphoregrass - Oregon, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Poa mannii Munro ex Hillebr.   (rediscovered) Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Poa norbergii Hultén   ? ? Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Podophorus bromoides Phil., 1856   1854 Robinson Crusoe Island, Juan Fernández Islands, Republic of Chile Extinct Access
             
Pseudolasiacis bathiei (A. Camus) A. Camus   1955 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Puccinellia gussonei Parl. (1850)   2005 Sicily, Italy Missing or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Puccinellia pannonica (Hack.) Holmberg (1920)   ? Hungary Extinct Access
             
Sartidia perrieri (A.Camus)   1914 Madagascar Missing Access
             
Schaffnerella gracilis (Benth.) Nash   - Mexico Rediscovered Access
             

Schizachyrium djalonicum

Jacq.-Fél. - 1956 Guinea Missing Access
             
Sphenopholis interrupta californica (Vasey) Scribn.   (rediscovered) Baja California, Mexico & California, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Sporobolus durus
Brongn.   1886 (1958?) Green Mountain, Ascension Island, Saint Helena Extinct Access
             
Sporobolus linearis Mez   ? Mauritius, Mascarene Islands ? Access
             
Sporobolus mauritianus (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz   ? Mauritius, Mascarene Islands Invalid (synonym) Access

Sporobolus pauciflorus

A.Chev. - 1947 Guinea Missing Access
             
Stipa horridula Pilg.   1917 Rapa Nui (=Easter Island) Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Streptochaeta angustifolia Soderstr.   25 April 1972 Espírito Santo, Brazil Extinct in the wild Access
             
Sucrea sampaiana (Hitchc.) Soderstr.   ? Espírito Santo, Brazil Missing Access
             

Themeda saxicola

Bor (1951) - (rediscovered) Koraput district, Odisha, India Rediscovered Access
             
Triodia bromoides (F. Muell.) M. Lazarides, 1997   (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Triscenia ovina Griseb.   (rediscovered) Holguin province, Cuba (eastern) Rediscovered Access
             
Trisetum burnoufii Req. ex Parl. (1850)   ? western Europe Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Trisetopsis quinqueseta (Steud.) Röser & Wölk   1800-1850 Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Triticum parvicoccum Kislev (1979)   ? Balkans and Near East Uncertain Access
             
Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze   (rediscovered) Mexico Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Rapateaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Restionaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Centrolepis caespitosa D.A. Cooke, 1980   - Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Chordifex chaunocoleus (F.Muell.) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson   (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Chordifex jacksonii L.A.S. Johnson & B.G. Briggs, 2004   - Western Australia (southwest), Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Elegia fastigiata Mast.   ? Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Lepyrodia heleocharoides Gilg   (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Willdenowia affinis Pillans   1918 Table Mountain (north slopes, near Kloof Corner), Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access

 

 

Family: Thurniaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Typhaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Family: Xyridaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Xyris andina Malme   1861-1863 Ecuador Missing Access
             
Xyris glandacea L.A.Nilsson, 1892   - Minas Gerais, Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

Appendix 1: Other papers that may be of interest

Lack, Hans Walter and van Slageren, Michiel. (2020). The discovery, typification and rediscovery of wild emmer wheat, Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides (Poaceae). Willdenowia, 50(2): 207-216. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.50.50206

 

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