Macaranga sp. nov. 'Rapa Nui'
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: <2000 yrcalBP (Dowe & Prebble, 2008:2547)
Distribution
Rapa Nui (=Easter Island)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Flenley, J. R., King, S. M., Jackson, J. and Chew, C. (1991). The late Quaternary vegetationaland climatic history of Easter Island. Journal of Quaternary Science 6: 85-115.
Prebble, Matthew and Dowe, John L. (2008). The late Quaternary decline and extinction of palms on Pacific islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 27(27-28): 2546-2567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.015
Rull, Valentí. (2020). The deforestation of Easter island. Biological Reviews 95(1): 124-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12556
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/1291/subfossil-plants-pacific-islands
Licania caldasiana Cuatrec. (1951:106)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Calderon, 1998; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1760 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Colombia (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); Colombia? (Lopez-Gallego & Morales, 2020; POWO, 2024)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cuatrecasas, José. (1951). Contributions to the flora of South America. Studies on Andean Compositae—II. Studies in South American plants—III. Fieldiana: Botany 27(2): 1-119.
Other 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]
Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.
Calderon, E. (compiler). (1997). Lista de plantas Colombianas en peligro. July 1997 Version. Instituto de Investigacino de Recursos Biologicas Alexander von Humboldt. (unpublished).
Calderon, E. (1998). Licania caldasiana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T32074A9678686. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32074A9678686.en. Downloaded on 18 November 2016.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
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]
Lopez-Gallego, C. and Morales M. P. (2020). Licania caldasiana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T32074A182978362. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T32074A182978362.es. Accessed on 16 June 2024.
Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 16 June 2024]
Prance, G. T. (1972). Chrysobalanaceae. Supplement to Chrysobalanaceae.
Prance, G. T. (1987). Annotations to: List of threatened plants of Latin America.
Prance, G. T. and Sothers, C. A. (2003). Chrysobalanaceae 1 & 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 9, 10: 1-319, 1-268. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.
Sothers, C. A, Prance, G. T. and Chase, M. W. (2016). Towards a monophyletic Licania: a new generic classification of the polyphyletic Neotropical genus Licania (Chrysobalanaceae). Kew Bulletin 71: 58. DOI:10.1007/S12225-016-9664-3.
The Nature Conservancy. (1996). Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).
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/142/licania-caldasiana
Euphorbia sendaica musashiensis (Hurus.) Hurus.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Distribution
Kantō region, Honshu, Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/3371/euphorbia-sendaica-var-musashiensis
Euphorbia remyi hanaleiensis Sherff (1936:588)
Remy's broomspurge
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chamaesyce remyi var. hanaleiensis (Sherff) O.Deg. & I.Deg. in Fl. Hawaiiensis 190: [s.p.] (1959)
Considered a synonym of monotypic E. remyi by (POWO, 2024).
Conservation Status
Last record: 1864-1865 (collection) (Wood & Walsh, 2022); 1936 (Wood et al., 2019:8); 1972 (collection) (NatureServe, 2024)
Since rediscovered (discovery of population: 23 April 2014; only later confirmed (see Wood & Walsh, 2022))
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bruegmann, M. and Clark, M. (2016). Euphorbia remyi var. hanaleiensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44127A97882651. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T44127A97882651.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.
Govaerts, R., Frodin, D. G. and Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
NatureServe. (2024). NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 30 August 2024]
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 30 August 2024]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (2003). Rare plant database. Unpublished.
Wagner, Warren L., Bruegmann, Marie M., Herbst, Derral M. and Lau, Joel Q. C. (1999a). Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 60: 1-58.
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. (1999b). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication 91: 1-1918.
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.
Wood, Kenneth R., Oppenheimer, Hank and Keir, Matthew. (2019). A checklist of endemic Hawaiian vascular plant taxa that are considered possibly extinct in the wild. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Technical Report #314.
Wood, Kenneth R. and Walsh, Seana K. (2022). Notes on the Hawaiian Flora: Kaua‘i Rediscoveries and Range Extensions. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2021. Edited by Neal L. Evenhuis, N.L. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 142: 27-34.
http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20180410.pdf
http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20150420.pdf
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/105/chamaesyce-remyi-var-hanaleiensis
Euphorbia pirahazo Jum.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Madagascar (western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Denis, M. 1921. Les Euphorbiées des Iles Australes d'Afrique. Theses. Nemours.
Haevermans, T. 2004. Euphorbia pirahazo. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44423A10901671. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44423A10901671.en. Downloaded on 27 December 2015.