Zanthoxylum paniculatum Balf.f. (1877:12)
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Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (cf. Bone, 2004)
The few extant trees are heavily managed, with active attempts to propagate the species using these last wild survivors (Bone, 2004). Flowering has not been observed since the 1970's (Tatayah, 2021b).
Distribution
Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Balfour, I. B. (1877). Aspects of the Phaenogamic Vegetation of Rodriguez, with descriptions of new plants from the Island. J. Linn. Soc. 16: 7-25 [12].
Other references:
Baker, J. G. (1877). Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles; a description of the flowering plants and ferns of those islands. L. Reeve & Co. London.
Balfour, IB. (1879). Botany, in An Account of the Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez ... Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 168: 302-387.
Bone, Ruth. (2004). A proposal for rare plant rescue: Zanthoxylum paniculatum Balf. fil. (Rutaceae), endemic to Rodrigues. International Dendrology Society [2004]: 56-61.
Bosser, J., Cadet, Th., Julien, H. R. and Marais, W. (1976). Flore des Mascareignes. The Sugar Research Institute, Mauritiu, ORSTOM, Paris, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Bosser, J. et al. (eds.). (1979). Flore des Mascareignes 64-68: 1. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
Cadet, T. (1971). Flore de l'Ile Rodrigue: Espèces spontanées introduites depuis Balfour (1874). Bull. Maurit. Inst. 7(1): 1-12.
Coode, M. J. E. (1979). Rutacées. In: Bosser J., Ferguson I.-K. & Soopramanien C. (eds) Flore des Mascareignes 65: 25. Sugar Industry Research Institute, Mauritius.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 489-490]
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. (2014). MWF Files. L'Express.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 18 March 2025]
Strahm, W. (1989). Plant Red Data Book for Rodrigues. Koeltz Scientific Books, Germany.
Tatayah, V., Baider, C. L., Jhangeer-Khan, R. and Bégué, J. A. (2021a). Zanthoxylum paniculatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T164111155A164117277. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T164111155A164117277.en. Accessed on 18 March 2025.
Tatayah, V., Baider, C. L., Jhangeer-Khan, R. and Bégué, J. A. (2021b). Zanthoxylum paniculatum (amended version of 2021 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T164111155A207899924. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T164111155A207899924.en. Accessed on 18 March 2025.
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.