Eleocharis lepta C.B.Clarke (1900:758)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Scirpus leptus (C.B.Clarke) Levyns in J. S. African Bot. 14: 84 (1948)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Helme & Trinder-Smith, 2006; Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)
Last (and only) record: 1897 (Contu, 2013)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Adamson, R. S. and Salter, T. M. (eds). (1950). Flora of the Cape Peninsula. pp. 889. Juta, Cape Town.
Bolus, H. and Wolley-Dod, A. H. (1904). A list of the flowering plants and ferns of the Cape Peninsula, with notes on some of the critical species. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 14(207-373).
Christenhusz, M. and Govaerts, R. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Contu, S. (2013). Eleocharis lepta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T44393322A44400658. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T44393322A44400658.en. Downloaded on 27 December 2015.
Helme, N. A. and Trinder-Smith, T. H. (2006). The endemic flora of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 72(2): 205-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2005.07.004
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]
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 28 April 2024]
WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/