Sartidia perrieri

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Sartidia perrieri
Sartidia perrieri type MNHN-P-P00446293.jpg
type specimen and only known individual

Extinct in the Wild (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Sartidia
Species:
S. perrieri
Binomial name
Sartidia perrieri
Synonyms[2]

Aristida perrieri A.Camus

Sartidia perrieri is a

endemic to Madagascar
, known from only one collected individual and now considered extinct.

tapia woodland. He wrote in the description of the dried herbarium specimen that he only ever saw one individual of this species, suggesting it was already very rare at that time.[1][3] Aimée Antoinette Camus named it after its collector and described it as new species in the genus Aristida;[4] Pierre Bourreil later transferred it to Sartidia.[5]

Sartidia perrieri is a

lemmas in the spikelets. With its clusters of large spikelets, it is very different from the only other known Sartidia species from Madagascar, S. isaloensis.[1]

In 2014, biologists were able to sequence chloroplast and nuclear DNA from the 100-year-old type specimen and confirmed its placement in Sartidia with molecular phylogenetics. It was closer to Southern African species than to S. isaloensis, suggesting the two species descend from lineages that colonised Madagascar independently.[6]

No other individual of Sartidia perrieri has been found since the original collection, and the species was accordingly assessed as extinct in the wild. It was suggested that pressure from grazing and agricultural expansion was already high at the time when Perrier de la Bâthie collected the plant.[1] Wooded savannas may have been replaced by open, C4 grass-dominated grasslands, leading to the loss of habitats suitable to C3 grasses like S. perrieri.[6]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 83684378
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  2. ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Collection: Vascular plants (P), specimen P00446293" (in French). Paris: Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle. 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. ISSN 0037-8941. open access
  5. ^ Bourreil, P. (1967). "Transfert d'Aristida perrrieri A. Camus au genre Sartidia de Winter. Position systematique de ce nouveau genre". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D (in French). 265 (3): 904–907. open access
  6. ^
    PMID 25258360. open access
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