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Syzygium travancoricum Gamble

Travancore syzygium (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1894

Rediscovered in 2008 or before

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Kerala, India

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

CAMP Workshops on Medicinal Plants, India (January 1997). 1998. Syzygium travancoricum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31202A9612226. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31202A9612226.en. Downloaded on 25 November 2017.

Emanoil, M. (ed.) 1994. Encyclopedia of endangered species. IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Gale Research International Ltd.

Giby Kuriakose, Palatty Allesh Sinu and K. R. Shivanna. (2018). Floral traits predict pollination syndrome in Syzygium species: a study on four endemic species of the Western Ghats, India. Australian Journal of Botany 66(7): 575-582. [Abstract]

Mesta, D. K., et al. (2008). Discovery of two critically endangered tree species and issues related to relic forests of the Western Ghats. The Open Conservation Biology Journal 2: 1-8.

Molur, S et al. (eds). 1995. Conservation assessment and management plan (CAMP) for selected species of medicinal plants of southern India.

Nayar, M.P. and Sastry, A.R.K. (eds) 1987. Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Vol. 1. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.

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

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.

Sreekumar, V. B. et al. (2021). Distribution of Syzygium travancoricum Gamble (Myrtaceae), a Critically Endangered tree species from Kerala part of Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(17): 17340-17346.

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.

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