Medusagyne oppositifolia Baker, 1877
Jellyfish tree
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1903
Rediscovered in 1970
IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Mahé, Seychelles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Baker, J. G. (1877). Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles: a description of the flowering plants and ferns of those islands. London: L. Reeve.
Other references:
Fay, Michael F., Swensen, Susan M.and Chase, Mark W. (1997). Taxonomic Affinities of Medusagyne oppositifolia (Medusagynaceae). Kew Bulletin 52(1): 111-120.
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts (eBook). Self published.
Kumar, S., Stecher, G., Suleski, M., and Hedges, S. B. (2017). TimeTree: a resource for timelines, timetrees, and divergence times. Mol. Biol. Evol. 34, 1812–1819. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx116
Marriott, Poppy and Sarasan, Viswambharan. (2010). Novel micropropagation and weaning methods for the integrated conservation of a critically endangered tree species, Medusagyne oppositifolia. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.—Plant 46: 516-523.
Matatiken, E. D. (2006). Using demography to set conservation priorities: A case study using the critically endangered Medusagyne oppositifolia (Medusagynaceae). Master thesis, University of Plymouth, UK.
Matatiken, D., Huber, M. J. and Ismail, S. (2011). Medusagyne oppositifolia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T37781A10072208. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T37781A10072208.en. Downloaded on 05 July 2016.
Robertson, Ann, Wise, Rosemary and White, Frank. (1989). Medusagyne oppositifolia: Medusagynaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 6(4): 166-171. [Abstract]
Schneider, J. V., Jungcurt, T., Cardoso, D., Amorim, A. M., Töpel, M., Andermann, T., et al. (2021). Phylogenomics of the tropical plant family Ochnaceae using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes and 250+ taxa. Taxon 70, 48–71. doi: 10.1002/tax.12421
Vargas, Pablo. (2023). Exploring ‘endangered living fossils’ (ELFs) among monotypic genera of plants and animals of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1100503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1100503
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