Franklinia alatamaha

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	THEALES	THEACEAE

Scientific Name:

Franklinia alatamaha

Species Authority:

Bartr. ex Marsh.

Common Name/s:

English

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Franklin Tree

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct in the Wild ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Originally occurring along the banks of Alatahama River in McIntosh County on the Coastal Plain of Georgia, the only known colony occurred in acidic bogs at the heads of sand-hill branches and was thought to have been brought to extinction largely through overcollection by nurserymen.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: United States (Georgia)
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Population [top]

Population:	This species has not been seen in the wild since 1803. Numerous expeditions to relocate the plant in the wild have failed. It is now a popular garden plant.

Population:

This species has not been seen in the wild since 1803. Numerous expeditions to relocate the plant in the wild have failed. It is now a popular garden plant.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A multi-stemmed shrub or small tree.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

	Center for Plant Conservation (CPC). 1990. Printout of CPC's data for North American plants. Lucas, G.L.l. and Synge, H. (compilers) 1978. The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Spongberg, S.A. 1997. Franklinia alatamaha Marshall. Extinct in the wild: an early example. Broadleaves (Newsletter of the IUCN-SSC Temperate Broadleaved Trees Specialist Group) 5:7-9.

Center for Plant Conservation (CPC). 1990. Printout of CPC's data for North American plants.

Lucas, G.L.l. and Synge, H. (compilers) 1978. The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Spongberg, S.A. 1997. Franklinia alatamaha Marshall. Extinct in the wild: an early example. Broadleaves (Newsletter of the IUCN-SSC Temperate Broadleaved Trees Specialist Group) 5:7-9.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Franklinia alatamaha. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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