Cinnamomum travancoricum J.S.Gamble (1925:128)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 5 April 1895 (Kumary et al., 2013:89 [as 1895]; Robi et al., 2018:12290)
Rediscovered on: 20 February 2006 (Kumary et al., 2013:90)
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution & Habitat
Travancore, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gamble, J. S. (1925). Flora of the Presidency of Madras. Adlard & Sons, London. 1224 pp.
Other 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]
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