Bromus interruptus (Hack.) Druce (1895:344)
Interrupted brome
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Bromus mollis var. interruptus Hack. in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1888: 240 (1889); Bromus pseudovelutinus Barnard ex H.C.Watson in Phytologist 3: 807 (1850), not validly publ.
Conservation Status
Last wild record: 1972 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Since reintroduced into the wild (Rumsey & Stroh, 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019), and Extinct in the Wild by (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024).
Distribution
England
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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