Crassula alcicornis Schönland (1917:93)
Antler-leafed crassula
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Septas alcicornis (Schönland) P.V.Heath in Calyx 3: 106 (1993)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: July 1915 (wild); May 1919 (cultivation) (Desmet & Opel, 2003:21)
Rediscovered in early August 2000 (Desmet & Opel, 2003:21)
Distribution
Clanwilliam District, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Desmet, Philip and Opel, Matthew R. (2003). Re-discovery of the antler-leafed crassula, Crassula alcicornis. Veld & Flora 89(1): 21. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00423203_2962
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Hall, A. V. and Veldhuis, H. A. (1985). South African red data book: 1-160. CSIR, Pretoria.
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]
Opel, Matthew. R. (2004). The rediscovery of Crassula alcicornis. Haseltonia 10: 38-40.
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.
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