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Rhododendron kanehirai

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	ERICALES	ERICACEAE

Scientific Name:	Rhododendron kanehirai
Species Authority:	Wilson

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct in the Wild ver 2.3
Year Published:	1998
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J.
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Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A beautiful ornamental shrub, which became extinct in 1984 during the construction of a dam and the flooding of its only known locality in the wild at Feitsui. For several centuries it has been in cultivation and is widely planted in gardens around the country.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Taiwan, Province of China
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:

Terrestrial

Citation:	Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J. 1998. Rhododendron kanehirai. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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