Chloropyron molle molle (A.Gray) A.Heller (1907:134)
Soft bird's-beak
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Cordylanthus mollis A.Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 384 (1868); Adenostegia mollis (A.Gray) Greene in Pittonia 2: 181 (1891)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1966 (Ripley, 1975:46)
Since Rediscovered [by implication] (NatureServe, 2024)
Previously considered possibly Extinct ("poEX") (Ripley, 1975:46).
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Baldwin, B. G., Goldman, D. H., Keil, D. J., Patterson, R., Rosatti, T. J. and Wilken, D. H. (eds.). (2012). The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, second edition. University of California Press. Berkeley, California.
Bittman, R. (1998). Lead Botanist, California Natural Diversity Database. Unpublished notes on fifty rare plants of California for purposes of updating Element Global Ranking (EGR) forms. California Natural Heritage Division, Dep. of Fish & Game, Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). (2019). Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 17: Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orobanchaceae. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. xxiv + 737 pp.
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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]
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Munz, P. A. with Keck, D. D. (1959). A California flora. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 1681 pp.
NatureServe. (2024). Chloropyron molle ssp. molle: Soft Bird's-beak. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 8 December 2024]
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 December 2024]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [46].
Smith, J. P. and Berg, K. (1988). California native plant society's inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. 4th edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. 168 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (1995). Proposed endangered status for two tidal marsh plants - Cirsium hydrophilum var. hydrophilum (Suisun thistle) and Cordylanthus mollis ssp. mollis (soft bird's-beak) from the San Francisco Bay area. Federal Register 60(112): 31000-31006.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (1997). Determination of Endangered Status for Two Tidal Marsh Plants-Cirsium hydrophilum var. hydrophilum (Suisun Thistle) and Cordylanthus mollis ssp. mollis (Soft Bird's-Beak) From the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Federal Register 62(224): 61916-61925.
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