Conservation assessments, threats, and the IUCN Red List categories and criteria

Miconia rheophytica is described, illustrated, and compared with presumed relatives in the Octopleura clade. It is distinguished by its narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate leaf blades with entire to subentire margins that have evenly spaced spreading smooth eglandular trichomes 0.8−1.4 mm long, an indumentum of dendritic trichomes with short axes and terete radiating arms on distal internodes, adaxial petiole surfaces, and primary and secondary veins on abaxial leaf surfaces, unribbed hypanthia that are constricted and tapered distally below the torus and covered with a mixture of basally roughened trichomes and dendritic trichomes with short axes, anthers with two ± truncate apical pores, eglandular anther appendages, 3-locular ovary, and berries that are bright blue at maturity. It is known only from flash-flooded riverbanks in three river canyons in the Magdalena Medio region of Antioquia, Colombia. A conservation assessment of “Endangered” is recommended for this species based on IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

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Primulina silaniae sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from the limestone area of Guizhou Province, China

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.185.72099 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. 123-130

Author(s):

Jin-Quan Zhang ◽

Hong Huang ◽

Mei-Jun Li ◽

Mei Huang ◽

Quan-Yuan Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Guizhou Province ◽

New Taxon ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Red List Categories ◽

A New Species

Primulina silaniae X.X.Bai & F.Wen, a new species of Primulina Hance (Gesneriaceae) from the limestone area of Wangmo County, Guizhou Province, is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to P. spiradiclioides Z.B.Xin & F.Wen, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by a combination of characteristics, especially in the lateral veins of its leaf and floral shape and tube. At present, three populations in one locality of this new taxon were found, totaling about 600 mature individuals. According to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (Version 3.1), the species is provisionally assessed as Vulnerable [VU D1].

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Odontochilus putaoensis (Cranichideae, Orchidaceae), a new species from Myanmar

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.103.25913 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 103 ◽

pp. 19-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ye Lwin Aung ◽

Aye Thin Mu ◽

Xiaohua Jin

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Identification Key ◽

Conservation Assessment ◽

Asian Species ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Light Yellow ◽

Red List Categories ◽

A New Species

Odontochilusputaoensis, a new species of Orchidaceae, is described and illustrated from Putao Township, Kachin State, Myanmar.Odontochilusputaoensisis close toO.duplex, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by having a light yellow lip, a bisaccate hypochile with a small, erect, blade-like and emarginate callus within each sac, a mesochile with a pair of dentate-pectinate flanges and a bilobed epichile with a pair of widely diverging lobes that are erect and concave. An identification key to the Southeast Asian species ofOdontochilusand colour photographs ofO.putaoensisare provided. A preliminary conservation assessment according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria is given for the new species.

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Liparis popaensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Myanmar

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.413.1.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 413 (1) ◽

pp. 67-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

AYE THIN MU ◽

YE LWIN AUNG ◽

XIAOHUA JIN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

National Park ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Identification Key ◽

Conservation Assessment ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Red List Categories ◽

A New Species

Liparis popaensis, a new species of Orchidaceae, is described from Popa Mountain National Park, central Myanmar. Liparis popaensis is morphologically similar to L. odorata but it differs from the latter by having oblong-lanceolate dorsal sepal, column with two triangular wings and lip with a pair of subconical and basally adjoining calli at its base. Identification key and colour photographs are provided. A preliminary conservation assessment according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria is given for the new species.

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Ocimum sebrabergensis (Lamiaceae), a new species from Namibia

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.405.4.4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 405 (4) ◽

pp. 203

Author(s):

WESSEL SWANEPOEL ◽

ERNST J. VAN JAARSVELD

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Clayey Soil ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Restricted Range ◽

Conservation Assessment ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Red List Categories ◽

A New Species

Ocimum sebrabergensis, here described as new species, has a restricted range and is only known from the Zebra Mountains within the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism, northwestern Namibia. These shrubs grow on clayey soil among greyish black rocks of anorthosite. Diagnostic characters for O. sebrabergensis include the mauve-coloured corolla with four orbicular lobes on the posterior lip and the calyx which has the lateral lobes of the anterior lip asymmetric lanceolate. Ocimum sebrabergensis is placed in Ocimum subg. Ocimum sect. Hiantia subsect. Hiantia ser. Serpyllifolium. A comparison of some of the more prominent morphological features to differentiate between O. sebrabergensis and its possible nearest relatives, O. burchellianum and O. fimbriatum, are provided. Based on IUCN Red List categories and criteria, a conservation assessment of Vulnerable (VU D1) is recommended for the new species.

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Eremitis limae (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new species of herbaceous bamboo endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.454.4.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 454 (4) ◽

pp. 277-284

Author(s):

FABRÍCIO MOREIRA FERREIRA ◽

CASSIANO A. DORNELES WELKER ◽

LYNN G. CLARK ◽

REYJANE P. OLIVEIRA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Distribution Map ◽

Coastal Forests ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Red List Categories ◽

Close Relatives ◽

A New Species

Eremitis limae, a new species of Parianinae (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Olyreae) endemic to the coastal forests of Bahia, Brazil, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to species of Eremitis with characteristically narrow leaves: E. linearifolia, E. parviflora, and E. riodocensis. We discuss the morphological characters distinguishing the new species from its close relatives, and we also present illustrations, photos, and a distribution map. Eremitis limae is classified as Endangered (EN) according to the IUCN Red List categories and criteria.

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Overview of the conservation status of Australian frogs

Pacific Conservation Biology ◽

10.1071/pc060313 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 313 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Jean-Marc Hero ◽

Clare Morrison ◽

Graeme Gillespie ◽

J. Dale Roberts ◽

David Newell ◽

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Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Individual Species ◽

Amphibian Species ◽

Current Conservation ◽

World Conservation ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Threatening Processes ◽

Red List Categories

A review of the current conservation status of Australian amphibians was recently completed as part of a World Conservation Union (IUCN) sponsored Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA). Fifty of 216 amphibian species (23%) in Australia are now recognized as threatened or extinct in accord with IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Here we report on the categories and criteria under which individual species qualified for listing and provide a summary of supporting information pertaining to population and distribution declines. Major threatening processes contributing to listing of species are also reviewed.

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Assessing the effectiveness of Madagascar’s changing protected areas system: a case study of threatened Boraginales

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605310000803 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 201-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

James S. Miller ◽

Holly A. Porter Morgan

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Protected Area ◽

Native Species ◽

Plant Conservation ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

System A ◽

Red List Categories

AbstractThreat analyses of the Boraginales were conducted and used to assess the effectiveness of Madagascar’s current and proposed protected area systems in conserving the threatened species of a group of plants widespread in Madagascar. Specimen locality data for 52 species of four families of Boraginales were analysed to provisionally assign species to IUCN Red List categories. Six species were excluded from these global analyses as they are non-native and introduced. IUCN’s criterion B, analysis of geographical range, was found to be the most reliable means of estimating threat, and predicted future decline was found to overestimate threat. Twenty-six of the 46 native species of Boraginales were found to be threatened. Sixty-five percent of these have portions of their ranges in the 2002 protected areas system. When the protected areas system was expanded in 2006 the percentage of species with some protected populations increased to 78%. More than 93% would be protected if a series of proposed priority areas for plant conservation were protected. The implications of these analyses for the conservation of plant species in Madagascar are discussed.

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Begonia leipingensis (Begoniaceae), a new compound-leaved species with unique petiolule pattern from Guangxi of China

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.244.1.3 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 244 (1) ◽

pp. 45 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

CHUN LI ◽

LI-HUA YANG ◽

DAI-KE TIAN ◽

YUE CHEN ◽

RUI-JUAN WU ◽

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Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Similar Species ◽

New Taxon ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Red List Categories ◽

A New Species

Begonia leipingensis D. K. Tian, L. H. Yang & C. Li (2n = 30), a new species in Begonia sect. Coelocentrum from the limestone area of Guangxi, China. B. leipingensisis is easily distinguished from any other compound-leaved species in Begonia by its large variation in petiolule number and its unique spirally-arranged petiolule pattern, which has never been seen in Begoniaceae before and rarely seen even in other angiosperm taxa. Besides having non-overlapping flowering periods, it is clearly different from B. fangii, the most morphologically similar species in the same section and with the same chromosome number. In addition to its unique petiolule pattern, B. leipingensis has longer abaxial wings, shorter internodes, and usually larger leaves, leaflets and habit. Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that B. leipingensis formed an independent lineage belonging to Sect. Coelocentrum. Morphological and phylogenetic evidence strongly supports this species as a new taxon in Sect. Coelocentrum of Begonia. B. leipingensis was assessed to be critically endangered based on criterion outlined by IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

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Spiradiclis karstana (Rubiaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.117.28281 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 117 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lei Wu ◽

Xiong Li ◽

Wen-Jian Liu ◽

Quan-Ru Liu

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Iucn Red List Categories ◽

Red List Categories ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species

Spiradicliskarstana, a new species of Spiradiclis (Rubiaceae) collected from Yunnan, China, is described for the first time. It is morphologically close to S.jingxiensis, but differs from the latter mainly by its inflorescences with 5–9 flowers, its 1.5–2.4 mm long peduncles, its stipules shorter than 1 mm and the 5–12 pairs of secondary veins. The conservation status is assessed as “Vulnerable” (VU) according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

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