Syzygium bourdillonii (Gamble) Rathakr. & N. C. Nair
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1895
Rediscovered in 1989
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Western Ghats, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rathakrishnan, N. C. and Nair, N. C. (1983). Nomenclatural changes in some Myrtaceous ' PlantsJ. . Econ. Tax. Bot. 4: 287-288.
Other references:
Gamble, J. S. (1918). Bull. Misc. Inform. 1918: 239.
Gamble, J. S. (1919). Myrtaceae. ln Fl. Pres. Maras. Adlard & Sons Ltd. London. Part lll pp. 473-474.
Humphreys, Aelys M. et al. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Mohanan, N. (1996). Rediscovery of Syzygium bourdillonii (Gamble) Rathakr. & N. C. Nair (Myrtaceae), an endemic and little known species of Western Ghats. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 20(3): 729-731.
Murugan, C. and Manickam, V. (2006). Syzygium bourdillonii (Gamble) Rathakr. & N.C. Nair (Myrtaceae) – a critically endangered taxon relocated other than the type locality. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 30: 498-500.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). (1987). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Vol. 1. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta. 367 pp.
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.
Shareef, S. M. (2015). The lectotypification of Syzygium bourdillonii (Gamble) Rathakr. & N.C. Nair (Myrtaceae). Taprobanica 7(2): 94-95. [automatic download]
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). Syzygium bourdillonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 06 May 2015.