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Thesium psilotocladum Svent. (1960:5)

Escobilla

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Kunkeliella psilotoclada (Svent.) Stearn in Cuad. Bot. Canaria 16: 20 (1972)

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Martín Cáceres et al., 2013) or Extinct (Bañares et al., 2004:66; Aedo et al., 2015; Abeli et al., 2021)

Last record: 1983 (Bañares et al., 2004:66)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Tenerife, Canary Islands, Macaronesia, North Africa (Spain: politically)

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Sventenius, E. R. (1960). Additamentum ad fl oram canariensem. – Inst. Nac. Invest. Agron ó micas, Madrid.

 

Other 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

Aedo, Carlos, Medina Domingo, Leopoldo, Barberá, Patricia and Fernández-Albert, M. (2015). Extinctions of vascular plants in Spain. Nordic Journal of Botany 33(1): 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.00575

Bañares, Á., Blanca, G., Güemes, J., Moreno, J. C. and Ortiz, S. (eds.). (2004). Atlas y Libro Rojo de la Flora Vascular Amenazada de España. Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza. Madrid. 1069 pp. [considers this species extinct (p. 66)]

Beierkuhnlein, Carl, Walentowitz, Anna and Welss, Walter. (2021). FloCan—A Revised Checklist for the Flora of the Canary Islands. Diversity 13(10): 480. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13100480 [Supplementary Information (S1-S6)]

Bilz, M., Kell, S. P., Maxted, N. and Lansdown, R. V. (2011). European Red List of Vascular Plants. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Buord, S. and Lesouëf, J. Y. (2006). Consolidating knowledge on plant species in need for urgent attention at European level. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle/European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity and Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest, Paris and Brest.

Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.

Hansen, A. and Sunding, P. (1985). Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 3. revised edition. Sommerfeltia 1: 5-103.

Martín Cáceres, K., Santos Guerra, A. and Marrero Gómez, M. V. (2004). Kunkeliella psilotoclada. In: A. Bañares, G. Blanca, J. Güemes, J.C. Moreno and S. Ortiz (eds), Atlas y Libro Rojo de la Flora Vascular Amenazada de España, pp. 66. Dirección General de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Madrid.

Martín Cáceres, K., Santos Guerra, A. and Marrero Gómez, M. V. (2013). Kunkeliella psilotoclada. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T165205A5989964. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T165205A5989964.en. Downloaded on 27 December 2015.

Moreno, J. C. (coord.). (2008). Lista Roja 2008 de la flora vascular española. Dirección General de Medio Natural y Política Forestal (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, y Medio Rural y Marino, y Sociedad Española de Biología de la Conservación de Plantas), Madrid, 86 pp. [considers this species extinct]

 

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