Archer’s Fescue (Festuca archeri)
Archer’s Fescue, described in 1987, is known only from the type material that was collected at an unknown locality and that consists only of the upper part of a single culm and its inflorescence.
The species is very doubtful and may in fact not even be valid. [1]
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References:
[1] Mark Wapstra; Fred Duncan; Alex Buchanan; Richard Schahinger: Finding a botanical Lazarus: Tales of Tasmanian plant species ‘risen from the dead’. The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 61-85. 2006
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edited: 15.01.2024
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
