Myosotis ruscinonensis Rouy (1891:377)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Myosotis ramosissima subsp. ruscinonensis (Rouy) O.Bolòs & Vigo in Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 14: 91 (1983), no exact basionym page.
Now considered a synonym of Myosotis ramosissima lebelii (Abeli et al., 2021; POWO, 2024).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Lucas & Synge, 1978:35,91; Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym of M. ramosissima lebelii) (Abeli et al., 2021; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1960 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:91)
Distribution
France
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rouy, G. (1891). Note sur le Myosotis bracteata Rouy. Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 30 [38?]: 374-381.
Other references:
Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1
Grau, J. (1968). Cytotaxonomische bearbeitung der Gattung Myosotis L. III. Die Annuellen Sippen. Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 7: 60-63.
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]
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 35, 91]
POWO. (2024). Myosotis ramosissima subsp. lebelii (Godr. & Gren.) Blaise. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 27 January 2024]
Tutin, T. G. et al. (eds.) (1972). Flora Europaea 3: 1-370. Cambridge University Press.
W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.