Coleus dissitiflorus Gürke (1894:217)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Plectranthus dissitiflorus (Gürke) J.K.Morton in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 58: 267 (1962)
Conservation Status
Unresolved (see below)
Last record: October 1891 (Murphy et al., 2023:16) or later
It was considered possibly extinct by (Cable & Cheek, 1998), rediscovered by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Murphy et al., 2023:16), and implicitly possibly extinct by (Cheek et al., 2021).
Distribution
Angola & Buea-Bimbia, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Cable, S. and Cheek, M. (1998). The plants of Mt Cameroon: a conservation checklist. 1-198. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Cheek, M. (2004). Afrothismia pachyantha. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T39539A10246294. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T39539A10246294.en. Downloaded on 19 June 2021.
Cheek, Martin, Ndam, Nouhou and Budden, Andrew. (2021). Notes on the threatened lowland forests of Mt Cameroon and their endemics including Drypetes burnleyae sp. nov., with a key to species of Drypetes sect. Stipulares (Putranjivaceae). Kew Bull. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09947-2
Figueiredo, E. and Smith, G. F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203.
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]
Murphy, Bruce, Onana, Jean Michel, Burgt, Xander M. van der, Ngansop Tchatchouang, Eric, Williams, Jenny, Tchiengué, Barthélemy and Cheek, Martin. (2023). Important Plant Areas of Cameroon. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 302 pp. [automatic download]