Oreogrammitis leonardii (Parris) Parris (2007:262)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Grammitis leonardii Parris; J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 70: 38 (1975); Oreogrammitis leondardii (Parris) Parris (2007:262) [orth. error used by Silcock et al., 2019:SM:14]

Conservation Status

Last (and only) record: 7 September 1948 (Parris, 1998:452; Field & Renner, 2019:118)

Rediscovered on 7 June 2017 (Worboys, 2017; Field & Renner, 2019)

Distribution

Mount Finnigan, Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Parris, Barbara S. (1975). A revision of the genus Grammitis Sw. (Filicales: Grammitidaceae) in Australia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 21-43.

Other references:

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]

Parris, Barbara S. (1998). Grammitidaceae, pp. 450-468 [452]. In: McCarthy, Patrick M. (ed.). Flora of Australia Volume 48, Ferns, Gymnosperms and Allied Groups. Melbourne: ABRS/CSIRO Australia. xxii + 766 pp.

Parris, Barbara S. (2007). Five new genera and three new species of Grammitidaceae (Filicales) and the re-establishment of Oreogrammitis. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 58(2): 233-274.

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]

Worboys, Stuart. (2017). Mt Finnigan. SGAP Cairns Newsletter 170-171: 6-7.

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