Pimpinella pulneyensis Gamble (1919:228)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Invalid (synonym of P. leschenaultii) (POWO, 2023)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of P. leschenaultii) (POWO, 2023)
Last record: 1891 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:37)
Rediscovered (Kumar, 2015:68-69) prior to synonymisation
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [689].
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]
Kumar, K. Kishore. (2015). A checklist to the vascular flora of Anamudi Shola National Park, Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala. Scientia 11(1): 51-73.
Matthew, K. M. (1999). The Flora of Palni Hills, Vol. 1-3, The Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirappalli. [considers the species possibly extinct (fide Kumar, 2015:68,69)]
Nayar, M. P. (1997). Biodiversity challenges in Kerala and Science of Conservation Biology, pp. 7-80. In: Pushpangadan, P. and Nair, K. S. S. (eds.). Biodiversity and Tropical Forests: The Kerala scenario. STEC, Kerala.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 37]
POWO. (2023). Pimpinella leschenaultii DC. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 13 December 2023]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
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.