Lycium brevipes hassei (Greene) C.L.Hitchc.
Santa Catalina Island desert-thorn
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Lycium hassei
Conservation Status
Last record: 1908 or before (Santa Catalina) (Raven, 1963); 1936 (San Clemente) (Philbrick, 1980:184)
Rediscovered (Knapp et al., 2020; contra Humphreys et al., 2019) in 1976
Still listed as extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution
Channel Islands (Santa Catalina & San Clemente), California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
CPC. (1990). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
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]
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Gluesenkamp, Daniel and Kennedy, Kathryn. (2020). Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 512-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1146-1
Philbrick, Ralph N.. (1980). Distribution and Evolution of Endemic Plants of the California Islands, pp. 173-187. In: Power, D. M. (ed.). California Islands proceedings. A multidisciplinary symposium. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Raven, P. H. (1963). A flora of San Clemente Island, California. Aliso 5: 289-347.