Firmiana major (W. Smith) Hand.-Mazz.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in c.2000
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution
Sichuan Province (southern) & Yunnan Province (northern), China
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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Ma, Yuqian et al. (2022). Conservation genetics of Firmiana major, a threatened tree species with potential for afforestation of hot, arid climates. Global Ecology and Conservation 36: e02136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02136
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Sun, W. (1998). Firmiana major. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T32349A9700122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32349A9700122.en. Downloaded on 23 November 2017.
Wang, D-S. (2001). Discovering wild population of Firmiana major in Panzhihua. Sichuan Plants 2001: 4-5.
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
Ya, Ji-Dong et al. (2017). Complete chloroplast genome of Firmiana major (Malvaceae), a critically endangered species endemic to southwest China. Conservation Genetics Resources. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0908-9 [Abstract] [two corrections to the original article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12686-017-0915-x]