Hymenophyllum whitei Goy (1941:127)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mecodium whitei (Goy) Wakef. in Vict. Naturalist 66: 59 (1949)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 19 September 1937 (Field & Renner, 2019:115)
Rediscovered on: 14 August 2017 (Field & Renner, 2019:116)
Considered Missing1 by Christenhusz & Govaerts (2024), with a last record of 2017.
1 Explicitly listed as Extinct by them, but they note that it "may still persist" and thus better interpreted as Missing.
Distribution
Thornton Peak, Queensland (north-eastern), Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goy. The Queensland Naturalist 11 (Aug. 1941) 127, & Plate.
Other references:
Bostock, P. D. and Spokes, T. M. (1998). Hymenophyllaceae, pp. 116-148 [133]. In: McCarthy, Patrick M. (ed.). Flora of Australia Volume 48, Ferns, Gymnosperms and Allied Groups. Melbourne: ABRS/CSIRO Australia. xxii + 766 pp.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Department of the Environment. (2015). Hymenophyllum whitei in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:07:40 +1100.
Field, Ashley Raymond and Renner, Matthew A. M. (2019). Rediscovered or reconsidered: the presumed extinct ferns and lycophytes of tropical Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 32(3): 111-122. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18024
Hassler, Michael. (2004-2023). World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Version 17.2; last update Oct. 20th, 2023. Available at: https://www.worldplants.de/ferns/ [Accessed 28 October 2023]
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 30 October 2024]
Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]
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