Melhania ebena Cronk (Dorr) (2021:119)
St. Helena ebony, Dwarf ebony, Ebony
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Trochetiopsis ebenus Cronk; Melhania ebenus Cronk (Dorr) (2021:119) [used by POWO]
Conservation Status
Last record: c.1850 (Meliss, 1875)
Rediscovered on 11 November 1980
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
St. Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Brodie, Sue, Cheek, Martin and Staniforth, Martin. (1998). Trochetiopsis ebenus: Sterculiaceae. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 15(1): 27-36.
Cairns-Wicks, R. (2003). Trochetiopsis ebenus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 April 2015.
Cairns-Wicks, R. Draft Recovery Action Plan for Trochetiopsis ebenus (Sterculiaceae).
Cronk, Quentin C. B. (2000). The Endemic Flora of St. Helena. Anthony Nelson Publishers, Oswestry, UK.
Dorr, Laurance J. and Wurdack, Kenneth J. (2021). Indo-Asian Eriolaena expanded to include two Malagasy genera, and other generic realignments based on molecular phylogenetics of Dombeyoideae (Malvaceae). Taxon 70(1): 99-126. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12370
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts (eBook). Self published.
Jarvis, C. and Synge, H. (eds.). (1981). St Helena. Threatened Plants Committee Newsletter 8: 12.
Meliss, J. C. (1875). St Helena: a physical, historical and topographical description of the island. London: L. Reeve.
Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.