Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegham (1895:28)
Adams mistletoe, Adam's mistletoe
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Loranthus adamsii Cheeseman in Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 13: 296 (1881); Elytranthe adamsii (Cheeseman) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 126 (1897); Trilepedia adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 28 (1895) [orth. error used by Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88]; Loranthus ralphii Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 23 (1895); Trilepidea ralphii (Tiegh.) Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 28 (1895); Elytranthe ralphii (Tiegh.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 126 (1897)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Lucas & Synge, 1978:317 [as presumed extinct]; Wilson & Given, 1989 fide Norton, 1991:52; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; de Lange et al., 2013:11; de Lange, 2014; Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last record (disputed): about 1954 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:317); 1954 (de Lange, 2014; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 1970 (Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
North Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:
SP031047 (collected September 1905)
SP031294 (collected September 1905)
Media
Above: Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh., collected September 1905, Auckland, Thames, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP031047)
Above: Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh., collected September 1905, Thames, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP031294)
Above: Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh., collected Thames, Hope Cr. [Hape Stream] AND Nelson, Foxhill, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP031297)
References
Original scientific description:
Cheeseman, T. F. (1881). Description of a new species of Loranthus. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 13: 296-297.
Other references:
Allan, H. A. (1961). Flora of New Zealand 1: 1-1085. Botany division, D.S.I.R., Christchurch. [p. 415]
Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.
Barlow, B. A. (1966). A revision of the Loranthaceae of Australia and New Zealand. Aust. J. Bot. 14: 427, 431-432.
Cheeseman, T. F. (1914). Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora 2. Wellington. t. 176. [as Elytranthe adamsii]
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (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]
de Lange, P. (2014). Trilepidea adamsii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T62798347A62798350. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T62798347A62798350.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.
de Lange, P. J., Rolfe, J. R., Champion, P. D., Courtney, S. P., Heenan, P. B., Barkla, J. W., Cameron, E. K., Norton, D. A. and Hitchmough, R. A. (2013). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 70 pp.
Given, D. R. (1976). Threatened Plants of New Zealand. Mim. limited edition. Botany Division, DSIR, New Zealand.
Heenan, Peter B., Smissen, Rob D., Cole, Theresa L. and Wood, Jamie R. (2022). Plastid DNA from the extinct Trilepidea adamsii confirms its close relationship to Alepis and Peraxilla (Loranthaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2022.2117060
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]
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 317-318]
Norton, David A. (1991). Trilepidea adamsii: an obituary for a species. Conservation Biology 5(1): 52-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1991.tb00387.x
POWO. (2024). Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh. 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]
Vargas, Pablo. (2023). Exploring ‘endangered living fossils’ (ELFs) among monotypic genera of plants and animals of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1100503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1100503
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
Wilson, C. M. and Given, D. R. (1989). Threatened plants of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: D.S.I.R. Publishing.
Wilton, A.D.; Schönberger, I.; Boardman, K.F.; Breitwieser, I.; Cochrane, M.; Dawson, M.I.; de Lange, P.J.; de Pauw, B.; Fife, A.J.; Ford, K.A.; Gibb, E.S.; Glenny, D.S.; Heenan, P.B.; Korver, M.A.; Novis, P.M.; Redmond, D.N.; Smissen, R.D.; Tawiri, K. (2016). Checklist of the New Zealand Flora – Seed Plants. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.7931/P1PP42