Sedum polystriatum R.T.Clausen (1946:77)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Sedum pulchellum Azn. in Magyar Bot. Lapok 16: 17 (1917 publ. 1918), nom. illeg.
Conservation Status
Rediscovered [by implication] (see Domina et al., 2015:200) (see below)
Listed as extinct over the last few decades (Ekim et al., 1989; Greuter, 1994; Humphreys et al., 2019), but Domina et al. (2015:200) state that it "apparently survive[s] according to recent assessments of that country’s flora (Ekim et al., 2000, Eken et al., 2006)".
Distribution
Anatolia, Turkey
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Davis, P. H. (ed.). (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 4: 1-657. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Domina, Gianniantonio, Bazan, Giuseppe, Campisi, Patrizia and Greuter, Werner. (2015). Taxonomy and conservation in Higher Plants and Bryophytes in the Mediterranean Area. Biodiversity Journal 6(1): 197-204.
Eken, G., Botdoğan, M., Isfendiyaroğlu, S., Kiliç, D. T. and Lise, Y. (2006). Türkiye’nin önemli doga alanları. Cilt 2. Ankara: Doğa Derneği.
Ekim, T., Koyuncu, M., Erik, S. and İlarslan, Reşit. (1989). Türkiye’nin tehlike altındakı nadir ve endemic bitki türleri IUCN red data book kategorilerine göre hazırlamıştır. Ankara: Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği. 227 pp. [lists this taxon as extinct]
Ekim, T., Koyuncu, M., Vural, M., Duman, H. and Aytaç, Z. and Adigüzel, N. (2000). Türkiye bitkileri kınmızı kitabı (eğrolti ve tohumlu bitkiler). Red Data Book of Turkish plants (Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta). Ankara: Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği.
Greuter, Werner. (1994). Extinctions in Mediterranean areas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Ser. B, 344: 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0049 [lists this taxon as extinct]
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] [lists this taxon as extinct]
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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