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Tulipa sprengeri Baker (1894:716)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Tulipa brachyanthera Freyn in Bull. Herb. Boissier 4: 187 (1896)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct in the wild (Ekim et al., 1989; Greuter, 1994; POWO, 2024)

Last record: late 1800's (POWO, 2024)

 

Distribution

Amasya region, Turkey

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Baker, J. G. (1894). Tulipa sprengeri, Baker n.sp. Gard. Chron. 15: 716.

 

Other references:

Christenhusz, M. J. M., Govaerts, R., David, J. C., Hall, T., Borland, K., Roberts, P. S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M. W. and Fay, M. F. (2013). Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172(3): 280-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12061

Ekim, T., Koyuncu, M., Erik, S. and İlarslan, Reşit. (1989). Türkiye’nin tehlike altındakı nadir ve endemic bitki türleri IUCN red data book kategorilerine göre hazırlamıştır. Ankara: Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği. 227 pp.

Greuter, Werner. (1994). Extinctions in Mediterranean areas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Ser. B, 344: 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0049

Hawkes, J. G., Maxted, N. and Ford-Lloyd, B. V. (2000). Field Gene Banks, Botanic Gardens In Vitro, DNA and Pollen Conservation, pp. 92-107. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hoog, John. (1899). Garden Flora. Plate 1251. Tulipa sprengeri. The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 1463(56): 438-439.

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]

Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063

Maunder, Mike et al. (2001). The genetic status and conservation management of two cultivated bulb species extinct in the wild: Tecophilaea cyanocrocus (Chile) and Tulipa sprengeri (Turkey). Conservation Genetics 2(3): 193-201. [Abstract]

POWO. (2024). Tulipa sprengeri Baker. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 4 February 2024]

Sprenger, C. (1895). Tulipa sprengeri. Gartenflora 44: 57-58 (Tab. 1411).

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.

Wiens, Andrew. (2020). Tulipa sprengeri: The Long Lost Tulip. Unpublished?

Wilford, Richard and Fay, Michael F. (2007). Tulipa sprengeri: Liliaceae. Curtis' Botanical Magazine 24(4): 211-216. [Abstract]

 

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