Malacothamnus abbottii (Eastw.) Kearney
Abbott's bush mallow, Abbott's bush-mallow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1889 (Ripley, 1975:44; Smith & York, 1984:2)
Since Rediscovered
Was listed as Extinct by (WCMC, 1992:220).
Distribution & Habitat
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
CPC (1990). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
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]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [44].
Smith, James Payne, Jnr. (ed.) and York, Richard (DEM). (1984). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (3rd edition). Berkeley, California: California Native Plant Society. xviii + 174 pp.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Malacothamnus+abbottii