Dypsis canaliculata

Dypsis canaliculata
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Genus:	Dypsis
Species:	D. canaliculata
Binomial name
Dypsis canaliculata (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf.[2]
Synonyms
Neodypsis canaliculata (Jum.) (basionym)[2][3]

Dypsis canaliculata is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family. It is found only in Madagascar, and has not been seen since 1951. It therefore may be extinct. At the times when specimens were collected, they were found far apart geographically (once in Manongarivo, and once in Ampasimanolotra), but both were growing on sandstone in lowland forest regions. To date no flowers from D. canaliculata have ever been collected for science.^[1]

Sources

1. Assessor: Johnson, D. (1998). "Dypsis canaliculata in IUCN 2010". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
2.  The binomial Dypsis canaliculata was first published in Palms of Madagascar 149 (1995) "Plant Name Details for Dypsis canaliculata" Check |url= value (help). IPNI. Retrieved May 23, 2011. Basionym: Neodypsis canaliculata. (Jum.)
3.  Neodypsis canaliculata, the basionym of Dypsis canaliculata, was originally described and published in Annales de l'Institut Botanico-Geologique Colonial de Marseille IV, 2: 9. 1924. "Name - Neodypsis canaliculata Jum.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved May 23, 2011.