Argyreia soutteri (F.M.Bailey) Domin (1928:533)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Lettsomia soutteri F.M.Bailey in Syn. Queensl. Fl., Suppl. 3: 130 (1890)
A synonym of either A. acuta (Department of the Environment, 2015, 2023; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12) or A. obtusifolia (POWO, 2023).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym of A. acuta) (Department of the Environment, 2015, 2023; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12) or Invalid (synonym of A. obtusifolia) (POWO, 2023)
Last record: 1887 (cultivated specimen) (Bailey, 1890); 1888 (Keith & Burgman, 2004:45)
Distribution
Johnstone River, Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bailey, F. M. (1890). A synopsis of the Queensland flora. Supplement. 3: 130.
Other references:
Department of the Environment. (2015). Argyreia acuta in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: https://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Mon, 2 Feb 2015 01:31:48 +1100.
Department of the Environment. (2023). Argyreia acuta in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: https://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:20:45 +1100.
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Hnatiuk, R. J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
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]
Johnson, R. W. (2012). Convolvulaceae. Australian Plant Census Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria.
Keith, David A. and Burgman, Mark A. (2004). The Lazarus effect: can the dynamics of extinct species lists tell us anything about the status of biodiversity? Biological Conservation 117: 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00261-1
Ooststroom, S. J. van and Hoogland, R. D. (1953). Convolvulaceae. Flora Malesiana 4: 388-512. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.
POWO. (2023). Argyreia obtusifolia Lour. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 11 December 2023]
Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]
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.