Pluchea glutinosa

Pluchea glutinosa was a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family that is endemic to the Island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, part of the Republic of Yemen.[1][2]

Pluchea glutinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Inuleae
Genus:
Pluchea
Species:
P. glutinosa
Binomial name
Pluchea glutinosa
Bojer ex J.G.Baker, name not valid because listed as synonym

The plant has not been observed in the wild since the 19th Century and is presumed extinct.[3]

References
  1. Baker, John Gilbert. 1890. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 25: 327-328
  2. Tropicos, Pluchea glutinosa (DC.) Bojer ex Baker
  3. Miller, A. 2004. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Pluchea glutinosa


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