Clinopodium palmeri (A.Gray) Kuntze (1891:515)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Calamintha palmeri A.Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 100 (1876); Satureja palmeri (A.Gray) Briq. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 303 (1896)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1885 (O'Brien et al., 2025:174)
Rediscovered in: 2001 (O'Brien et al., 2025:174)
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution & Habitat
Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
Moran, R. (1996). The flora of Guadalupe island, Mexico. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 19: 1-190.
O'Brien, Bart C., Rebman, Jon P., Delgadillo-Rodríguez, José, Gandhi, Kanchi Natarajan, Junak, Steven A., Oberbauer, Thomas A., Riemann, Hugo and Vanderplank, Sula E. (2025). The Rare, Endangered and Endemic Plants of the California Floristic Province Portion of Baja California, Mexico. Aliso 43(2): 77-217. https://doi.org/10.5642/aliso.YOAJ6071
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