Memecylon sisparense Gamble, 1919:227
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: June 1884 (Biju, 1999:160)
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Nilgiri Hills, 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:
Biju, S. D. (1999). Chronicle of Discoveries - The Pursuit of Plants, pp. 145-174 [159-160]. In: Manoharan, T. M., Biju, S. D., Nayar, T. S. and Easa, P. S. (eds.). Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason. Kerala Forest Research.
Das Das, Moumita, Pramanik, Arabinda and Maity, Debabrata. (2014). Lectotypification of Memecylon sisparense (Memecylaceae). Rheedea 24(1): 21-22.
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [688].
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, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 3. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 271 pp. Illus., col. illus. [p. 180]
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.
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
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.