Tephrosia kassasii Boulos
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Lucas, 1980; Lock, 1989; Greuter, 1994; Walter & Gillett, 1998; El-Hadidi & Hosni, 2000; Hosni et al., 2013; Humphreys et al., 2019; El-Khalafy et al., 2021)
Distribution
Egypt
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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.
El-Hadidi, M. and Hosni, H. (2000). Conservation and threats, pp. 105-150. In M. N. El-Hadidi (Ed.), Flora Aegyptiaca. Cairo University Herbarium, The Palm Press.
El-Khalafy, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ahmed, Dalia Abd El- Azeem, Shaltout, Kamal Hussein, Al-Sodany, Yassin Mohamed and Haroun, Soliman Abdelfattah. (2021). Re-assessment of the endemic taxa in the Egyptian Flora. African Journal of Ecology 59: 784-796. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12880
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
Hosni, Hasnaa, Hosny, Amal, Shamso, Eman and Hamdy, Rim. (2013). Endemic and near-endemic taxa in the Flora of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Botany 53: 357-383.
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]
Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lucas, G. L. (ed.). (1980). First preliminary draft of the list of rare, threatened and endemic plants for the countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Kew: International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Survival Service Commission, Threatened Plants Committee.
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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