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Syzygium myhendrae (Bedd. ex Brandis) Gamble

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Eugenia myhendrae (Bedd.) Brandis

 

Conservation Status

Last record: before 1902

Rediscovered in 2002 or before

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution

Western Ghats (southern), India

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Gamble, J. S. (1981). Flora of the Presidency of Madras - Vol. 1. Adlard & Sons Ltd., 21, Hart Street W.O., London, 475 pp.

 

Other references:

Bourdillon, T. F. (1908). The Forest Trees of Travancore. The Government Press, Trivandrum, India. 189 pp.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Ramasubbu, R., Divya, C. and Anjana, S. (2016). A note on the taxonomy, field status and threats to three endemic species of [i]Syzygium[/i] (Myrtaceae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(11): 9384-9390.

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.

Sasidharan, N., Sujanapal, P. and Augustine, J. (2002). Reappearance of Syzygium myhendrae (Bedd. ex Brandis) Gamble and Ellipanthus tomentosus Kurz in the southern Western Ghats. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 609-611.

Shareef, Muhammed S. and Rasiya, Beegam A. (2015). Lectotypification and status of Syzygium myhendrae (Bedd. ex Brandis) Gamble (Myrtaceae) – an endemic myrtle of southern Western Ghats, India. Taiwania 60(1): 59-62.

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 myhendrae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 March 2015.

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