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Wendlandia angustifolia Wight ex Hook.f., 1880:40

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: c.1837 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:348); 19 March 1917

Rediscovered on 16 February 1998 (Viswanathan et al., 2000)

IUCN status: Endangered

 

Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Sivaraj et al., 2020:45; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).

 

Distribution

Tamil Nadu, India

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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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]

Khoshoo, T. N. (1996). India needs a National Biodiversity Conservation Board. Current Science 71(7): 506-513.

Muthumperumal, C., Balasubramanian, P. and Rasingam, L. (2020). An assessment of the conservation status of a presumed extinct tree species Wendlandia angustifolia Wight ex. Hook.f. in southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(4): 15468-15474.

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. 348-349]

Oldfield, S. (2020). Wendlandia angustifolia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T31213A117415015. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T31213A117415015.en. Accessed on 28 December 2022.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

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]

Sivaraj, N., Venkateswaran, Kamala, Pandravada, S. R., Reddy, M. Thirupathi Reddy and Rajasekharan, P. E. (2020). Threatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their ConservationThreatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their Conservation, pp. 31-62. In: Rajasekharan, P. E. and Wani, Shabir Hussain (eds.). Conservation and Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. xviii + 565 pp.

Viswanathan, M. B., Harrison Premkumar, E. and Ramesh, N. (2000). Rediscovery of Wendlandia angustifolia Wight ex Hook.f. (Rubiaceae), from Tamil Nadu, a species presumed extinct. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 97(2): 311-313.

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.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Wendlandia angustifolia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31213A9614432. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31213A9614432.en. Downloaded on 17 September 2016.

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