Pluchea glutinosa

Pluchea glutinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Inuleae
Genus: Pluchea
Species: P. glutinosa
Binomial name
Pluchea glutinosa
Bojer ex J.G.Baker, name not valid because listed as synonym

Pluchea glutinosa is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family that is endemic to the Island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, part of the Republic of Yemen.[1][2]

The plant has not been observed in the wild since the 19th Century and is presumed extinct.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Baker, John Gilbert. 1890. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 25: 327-328
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Pluchea glutinosa (DC.) Bojer ex Baker
  3. ↑ Miller, A. 2004. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Pluchea glutinosa


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