Astronidium kasiense A.C. Smith
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1)
Last record: 1934
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Mt. Kasi, Vanua Levu, Fiji
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Smith, A.C. 1979. Flora Vitiensis Nova: a new Flora of Fiji. Pacific Tropical Botanic Garden, Hawaii.
Other 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]
Lear, M. 1994. Letter to Harriet Gillett dated 28 March 1994, enclosing extracts from "Plant Conservation in Fiji" written by Michael Lear and Beverley Woods in March 1992.
Lear, M. and Woods, B. 1992. Plant conservation in Fiji. WWF 3334. Small grants for plant conservation on islands (6) Fiji.
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
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.
W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1998. Astronidium kasiense. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T34381A9857239. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T34381A9857239.en. Downloaded on 16 November 2016.