Vepris bali

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Vepris bali is the first known species of Vepris in WC Africa with opposite, trifoliolate leaves and is further unusual for its long petiolules. Known only from Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, a remnant of submontane forest under great pressure of degradation in the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon, it may already be extinct due to tree cutting and agricultural incursions. Here, V. bali is compared with other endemic cloud forest Vepris of the Cameroon Highlands and is described, illustrated, mapped and assessed as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) using IUCN 2012 criteria.

Citation: Cheek M., Gosline G. & Onana J.-M. 2018: Vepris bali (Rutaceae), a new critically endangered (possibly extinct) cloud forest tree species from Bali Ngemba, Cameroon. - Willdenowia 48: 285–292. doi: doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48207

www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3372/wi.48.48207

[Melanie]

Only known by the type specimen collected in 1951.

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New Tree Species Discovered — and Declared Extinct

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.

therevelator.org/tree-discovered-extinct/

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New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

news.mongabay.com/2018/10/new-tree-species-from-cameroon-is-possibly-already-extinct/