Memecylon sisparense Gamble, 1919:227
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats (southern), India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gamble, J.S. 1919. XII. Decades Kewenses: Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatarum. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1919: 227.
Other references:
Das Das, Moumita, Pramanik, Arabinda and Maity, Debabrata. (2014). Lectotypification of Memecylon sisparense (Memecylaceae). Rheedea 24(1): 21-22.
Murugesan, M., Balasubramaniam, V. and Paulsamy, S. (2007). Rediscovery of Memecylon sisparense Gamble (Melastomataceae) and Swertia beddomei C. B. Clarke (Gentianaceae). Rheedea 17(1-2): 33-34.
Nayar, M.P. and Sastry, A.R.K. (eds) 1990. Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Vol. 3. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Ramesh, B.R. and Pascal, J.-P. 1997. Atlas of endemics of the Western Ghats (India). Distribution of tree species in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. Institut Français de Pondichéry.
Ravikumar, K., Sankar, R. Vijaya and Ravishankar, T. (2003). Rediscovery of Memecylon sisparense Gamble (Melastomataceae) 110 years after Type collection, pp. 151-156. In: Janarthanam, M. K. and Narasimhan, D. (eds.). Plant Diversity, Human Welfare and Conservation. Goa: Goa University.
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.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1998. Memecylon sisparense. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31204A9612557. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31204A9612557.en. Downloaded on 17 April 2017.