- Odontonema brevipes
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Odontonema brevipes Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Acanthaceae Genus: Odontonema Species: O. brevipes Binomial name Odontonema brevipes
Urb.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.[1] 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.[2]
Conservation status
Although Odontonema brevipes is not listed in the IUCN Red List, the authors of a recent 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.[1]
References
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Urban, Ignatz (1911—1913). Symbolae Antillanae,seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. 7. Paris, London: Berolini. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3757.
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