Cathedra grandiflora Loes. (1889:75)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Sleumer, 1984 fide Lucena et al., 2021a:45; de Lima et al., 2024:Data S2) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024) or Rediscovered/Extant (Lucena et al., 2021a:45-46) (see below)
Last record: 20 November 1888 (Lucena et al., 2021a:46-47); 1889 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; de Lima et al., 2024:Data S2)
This species was treated as possibly extinct by (Sleumer, 1984 fide Lucena et al., 2021a:45), potentially due to a lack of herbarium specimens (Lucena et al., 2021a:45). In 2024, a second Brazilian botanical work treated the taxon as possibly extinct (de Lima et al., 2024), this time explicitly due to the lack of records since the holotype. It has also recently been listed as Extinct by multiple international authorities (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024). However, Brazilian workers have putatively recorded the species on a number of occasions since 23 March 1999 (Lucena et al., 2021a:45-46; contra de Lima et al., 2024).
Distribution
Brazil (Bahia; Espirito Santo; Rio de Janeiro)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Loesener, L. E. T. (1889). Olacaceae, pp. 75-76. In: Goebel, K. (ed.). Flora oder Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung. Marburg: N.G. Elwert’sche Verlagbuchhandlung.
Other references:
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Christenhusz, M. and Govaerts, R. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
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]
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Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
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]
Lucena, Danielly da Silva, Gomes-Silva, Francione and Alves, Marccus. (2021a). Cathedra (Olacaceae s. l.): A New Species and Morphological, Nomenclatural, and Distributional Updates, pp. 26-61, 4 figs. In: Lucena, Danielly da Silva. PhD thesis, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.
Lucena, Danielly da Silva, Gomes-Silva, Francione and Alves, Marccus. (2021b). Cathedra (Olacaceae s. l.): A New Species and Morphological, Nomenclatural, and Distributional Updates. Systematic Botany 46(3): 700-710. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364421X16312067913336
POWO. (2024). Cathedra grandiflora Loes. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 10 March 2024]
Sleumer, H. O. (1984). Olacaceae: Flora Neotropica Monograph. Bronx: New York Botanical Garden.
WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/