Dissanthelium californicum (Nutt.) Benth., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: 56, t. 1375. 1881.
Catalina grass, California dissanthelium
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Stenochloa californica Nutt.
Conservation Status
Last record: 1912 (Ripley, 1975:45; Smith & York, 1984:2)
Rediscovered in ?
Distribution
Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Gould, F. W. and Moran, R. (1981). The grasses of Baja California, Mexico. Memoir San Diego Society of Natural History 12: 1-140.
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]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [45].
Smith, James Payne, Jnr. (ed.) and York, Richard (DEM). (1984). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (3rd edition). Berkeley, California: California Native Plant Society. xviii + 174 pp.
Swallen, J. R. and Tovar, O. (1965). The grass genus Dissanthelium. Phytologia 11(6): 361-376.
U.D.D.I. Fish and Wildlife Service (1985). Review of plant taxa for listing as endangered or threatened species; notice of review. Federal Register 50(188): 1-39.
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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