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Issue: Vol. 622 No. 3: 27 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.622.3.5
Page range: 227-235
Abstract views: 496
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Rediscovery of Lagenandra erosa from Sri Lanka: update of description and conservation status

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Gardening; Faculty of Agriculture & Plantation Management; Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Department of Multimedia Technology; University of Vocational Technology; No.100; Kandawala Road; Rathmalana; Sri Lanka
Department of Botany; University of Peradeniya; Peradeniya; Sri Lanka
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Gardening; Faculty of Agriculture & Plantation Management; Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Monocots Araceae Biodiversity conservation Extinct species Flora of Sri Lanka Ornamental aquatic plants

Abstract

Lagenandra erosa, considered to be extinct from its original locality, Sri Lanka, is rediscovered nearly half a century after its original description. The species was first described in 1978 based on specimens imported from Sri Lanka to Europe at the beginning of the nineteen seventies as aquarium plant, with no information on locality. The present rediscovery of L. erosa enabled us to update the original description from its natural populations with its locality. The conservation status of L. erosa is downgraded from Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) CR (PE) to Critically Endangered category under Criterion B1ab (ii) + B2ab (ii).

 

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