Dombeya mauritiana F. Friedmann, 1981:439
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Dombeya mauritana F. Friedmann, 1981:439 [orth. error used by Baillie & Butcher, 2012:77]
Conservation Status
Last record: 1994?
Rediscovered in April 2009
Distribution
Mauritius, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Friedmann, F. (1981). Sterculiacées et Lecythidacées nouvelles aux Mascareignes. Adansonia 20: 439-449.
Other references:
Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.
Florens, Vincent. (2009). Mauritian tree rediscovered. Species 50: 25.
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.
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 Péchon, Timothée et al. (2015). Diversification of Dombeyoideae (Malvaceae) in the Mascarenes: old taxa on young islands? Int. J. Plant Sci. 176(3): 211-221.
Pain, Stephanie. (2018). Kew's missing magic restored. New Scientist 238(3177): 44-45. [Abstract]
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/