Peperomia degeneri Yunck. (1933:25)
Degener's peperomia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Walter & Gillett, 1998:448; Wood et al., 2019:11) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Keir, 2023; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1928 (Wood et al., 2019:11; Keir, 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 9/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Yunker, T. G. (1933). Revision of the Hawaiian species of Peperomia. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 112: 3-131.
Other references:
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
Christenhusz, M. and Govaerts, R. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press.
Keir, M. (2023). Peperomia degeneri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023: e.T201053876A201053885. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T201053876A201053885.en. Accessed on 04 January 2024.
POWO. (2024). Peperomia degeneri Yunck. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 1 January 2024]
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. (1990). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'I 1-2: 1-1853. University of Hawaii Press.
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.
Wood, Kenneth R., Oppenheimer, Hank and Keir, Matthew. (2019). A checklist of endemic Hawaiian vascular plant taxa that are considered possibly extinct in the wild. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Technical Report #314.
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