Biology:Trilepidea

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Short description: Extinct genus of flowering plants

Trilepidea
Loranthus adamsii by Georgina Burne Hetley.jpg
Herbarium specimen of "Trilepidea adamsii"
Herbarium specimen of Trilepidea adamsii
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Trilepidea
Tiegh.
Species:
T. adamsii
Binomial name
Trilepidea adamsii
(Cheeseman) Tiegh.[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Elytranthe adamsii (Cheeseman) Engl.
  • Elytranthe ralphii (Tiegh.) Engl.
  • Loranthus adamsii Cheeseman
  • Loranthus ralphii Tiegh.
  • Trilepidea ralphii (Tiegh.) Tiegh.

Trilepidea is an extinct monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.[4] Its native range was New Zealand.[4] The only species was Trilepidea adamsii, or Adams mistletoe.[1] It was first described in 1880 as Loranthus adamsii and has ever only been collected from a few locations in the North Island. It has been argued that the extinction of this species, vulnerable due to restricted distribution, was caused by interaction of a number of factors, including introduction of an exotic species, in this case the brushtail possum from Australia .[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 de Lange, P. (2014). "Trilepidea adamsii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T62798347A62798350. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T62798347A62798350.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/62798347/62798350. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  2. Tieghem MPV (1895) Sur Les Loranthoidées De La Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 42: 23-30. doi:10.1080/00378941.1895.10830569
  3. "Trilepidea adamsii (Cheeseman) Tiegh." (in en) (html). Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:552217-1. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Trilepidea" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/25364-1 . 
  5. Norton, D.A. (1991) Trilepidea adamsii: an obituary for a species. Conserv. Biol. 5(1): 52-57.

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