Eragrostis rottleri Stapf (1896:321)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:299; Walter & Gillett, 1998; Rao et al., 2003:109; contra Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 1779 (Srivastava et al., 2015); 15 December 1835 (Vivek et al., 2013:110)
Humphreys et al. (2019) list the species as rediscovered and cite (Vivek et al., 2013) as the source publication, but reading that publication they note that they could not find the species:
"A thorough search was unsuccessfully made in Tranquebar (Tharangampadi) and near about areas for this species."
(Vivek et al., 2013:112)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
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Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 299]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
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Srivastava, R. C., Lakshminarasimhan, P., Arisdason, W. and Sardesai, M. M. (2015). Angiosperms of India known only by type collection. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7465-7470. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3723.7465-70
Vivek, C. P., Murthy, G. V. S. and Nair, V. J. (2013). A note on Eragrostis rottleri (Poaceae) and its lectotypification. Nelumbo 55: 109-112.
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.