- Heliotropium pannifolium
Taxobox
name = "St Helena heliotrope"
status = EX
status_system = iucn2.3
extinct = ca.1820
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Boraginales
familia =Boraginaceae
genus = "Heliotropium "
species = "H. pannifolium"
species_authority = Burch. ex Hemsl.
binomial = "Heliotropium pannifolium"The St Helena heliotrope is now extinct but was formerly a hairy-leaved small shrub up to 1 m in height. it was only seen once, by the explorer W. Burchell in Broad Gut, St Helena (ca. 1808) and has never been seen again. Human impact on the island of St Helena was severe and the St Helena heliotrope is one of several extinct plants from that island (see
List of extinct plants ).ee also
*
Flora of St Helena References
* Cronk, Q.C.B. (1995) The endemic Flora of St Helena. Anthony Nelson Ltd, Oswestry.
External links
* [http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?Genus=Heliotropium&Species=pannifolium&source=plants&tabname=all UNEP-WCMC Species Database]
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