Ranunculus hostiliensis Pignatti (1976:209)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Bartolucci et al., 2018:182, 2021:48) or Extinct (Dunkel, 2010:216; Abeli et al., 2021; Orsenigo et al., 2021; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last record (disputed): 1870's (Dunkel, 2010:216); 1976 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Province of Verona, Italy
"endemic taxon of the Province of Verona around Ostiglia"
(Dunkel, 2010:216)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1
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