Begonia eiromischa

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	VIOLALES	BEGONIACEAE

Scientific Name:

Begonia eiromischa

Species Authority:

Ridl.

Common Name/s:

English

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Woolly-stalked Begonia

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct ver 3.1
Year Published:	2007
Assessor/s:	Lim, T.W.
Reviewer/s:	Temple, H. & Hilton-Taylor, C. (Red List Unit Office)
Contributor/s:
Justification: The Woolly-stalked Begonia was known from just one locality. Its habitat has been found to have been cleared for farmsteads in the 1980s. Extensive searches of nearby forests have failed to reveal any specimens in the last 100 years.

Range Description:	This species is known only from collections made in 1886 and 1898 in one locality: Pulau Betong, Penang Island, Peninsular Malaysia.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Malaysia
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Population:	The area has been explored but no specimens of the little herb have been found in the last hundred years.

Population:

The area has been explored but no specimens of the little herb have been found in the last hundred years.

Habitat and Ecology:	Granite rocks at ca170 m altitude surrounded by dipterocarp forest; the original forest has been cleared for agricultural cultivation.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	The following activities probably contributed to the extinction of the species: small-holder farming, selective logging, and clear-cutting.

Major Threat(s):

The following activities probably contributed to the extinction of the species: small-holder farming, selective logging, and clear-cutting.

Citation:	Lim, T.W. 2007. Begonia eiromischa. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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