Tolstoi’s Hawkweed (Hieracium tolstoii)

This species, described in 1927, was restricted to the Alps of Lombardy, northern Italy; it is officially recognized as extinct since 2019. [1][2]

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References: 

[1] Fabrizio Bartolucci; Gabriele Galasso; Lorenzo Peruzzi; Fabio Conti: Report 2020 on plant biodiversity in Italy: native and alien vascular flora. Natural History Sciences. Atti Soc. it. Sci. nat. Museo civ. Stor. nat. Milano 8(1): 41-54. 2021
[2] Thomas Abeli; Giulia Albani Rocchetti; Zoltan Barina; Ioannis Bazos; David Draper; Patrick Grillas; José María Iriondo; Emilio Laguna; Juan Carlos Moreno-Saiz; Fabrizio Bartolucci: Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. 2021

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edited: 11.02.2024