Odontonema brevipes

Odontonema brevipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Odontonema
Species: O. brevipes
Binomial name
Odontonema brevipes

Odontonema brevipes is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from four localities in the Main Ridge of Tobago.[2] It was described by German botanist Ignatz Urban in his Symbolae Antillanae, based on collections made by Danish botanist Henrik von Eggers and English-born Trinidadian botanist Walter Elias Broadway.[3]

Conservation status

Although Odontonema brevipes is not listed in the IUCN Red List, the authors of a 2008 assessment of the endemic plant species of Trinidad and Tobago considered it vulnerable due to the fact that it is known from a restricted area or small number of localities.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oatham, M.; Van den Eynden, V. & Johnson, W. (2017). "Odontonema brevipes". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2017: e.T115945763A115968126. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T115945763A115968126.en. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 Van den Eynden, Veerle; Michael P. Oatham; Winston Johnson (2008). "How free access internet resources benefit biodiversity and conservation research: Trinidad and Tobago's endemic plants and their conservation status". Oryx. 42 (2): 400–07. doi:10.1017/S0030605308007321.
  3. ↑ Urban, Ignatz (1911–1913). Symbolae Antillanae,seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. 7. Paris, London: Berolini.


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