Neuracanthus neesianus C.B.Clarke
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Lepidagathis neesiana Wight ex T.Anderson
Conservation Status
Missing (Nayar & Sastry, 1988:4; Walter & Gillett, 1998; Rao et al., 2003:8; Sivaraj et al., 2020:37) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last (and only) record: 1850 (Srivastava et al., 2015); c.1850 (Nayar & Sastry, 1988:4)
Distribution
Thiruvannamalai District (=North Arcot District), Tamil Nadu, India
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]
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1988, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 2. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 268 pp. [p. 4]
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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.