Veronicastrum liukiuense (Ohwi) Yamazaki
Ryukyu-suzukake
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Botryopleuron liukiuense Ohwi (basionym)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Red List of Threatened Plants of Japan; Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022); Rediscovered?
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 43/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
Okinawa Island, Amami Oshima, and Kikai-jima, Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
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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Ministry of the Environment, Japan. (2022). Veronicastrum liukiuense. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T90228322A90229096. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T90228322A90229096.en. Accessed on 07 September 2023.
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WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2038/veronicastrum-liukiuense
https://www.biodic.go.jp/english/rdb/red_plants.csv [Red List of Threatened Plants of Japan]