Mellissia begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hook.f. (1867:1021)
Saint Helena boxwood
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Physalis begoniifolia Roxb. in A.Beatson, Tracts St. Helena: 317 (1816); Withania begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza in Lorentzia 8: 7 (1995)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019) in 1998 (Wikipedia)
Last wild record: 2010 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
St. Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Cronk, Q. C. B. (2000). The endemic flora of St Helene: 1-119. Antony Nelson, Oswestry, England.
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]
Lambdon, P. (2012). Flowering plants & ferns of St Helena: 1-624. Pisces publications for St Helena nature conservation group.
POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 17 November 2024]
R.B.G. Kew & Intern. Inst. Environment and Development (1993). Status of the endemic flora and preliminary recovery programmes 3: 1-95.