Premna paucinervis (C.B. Clarke) Gamble, 1924
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1872
Rediscovered in 1994 (2010?; 2013?)
The date of rediscovery depends upon whether one dates it to the actual collection of new material, or the realization that the new material was actually of the putatively extinct taxon. In this case it is impossible to assign a definite date to the rediscovery at present, given the limited information available in the literature.
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gamble, J. S. (1924). Flora of the Presidency of Madras. Vol. 2. Adlard & Sons Co. Ltd., London. pp. 1093-1095.
Other references:
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [693].
Rajendran, A and Daniel, P. (1994). Some remarks on the endemic Premna paucinervis (C. B. Clarke) Gamble (Verbenaceae). Indian J. Forest. 17(4): 363-366.
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Robi, A. J., Augustine, Jomy, Sasidharan, N. and Udayan, P. S. (2013). Rediscovery of an endemic and rare Premna paucinervis (Verbenaceae) from the Western Ghats after a century. Rheedea 23(1): 10-12.