Wendlandia psychotrioides

Wendlandia psychotrioides
Conservation status
Extinct in the Wild (NCA)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Wendlandia
Species:	W. psychotrioides
Binomial name
Wendlandia psychotrioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell.[1][2][3]
Synonyms[1][4]
Oldenlandia psychotrioides F.Muell.

Wendlandia psychotrioides is a species of shrubs or small trees, constituting part of the plant family Rubiaceae.[3]

An officially extinct species,[5][6] the only (endemic) records of the species were from in the Wet Tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia.

It was scientifically described in 1889 and 1892 by Ferdinand von Mueller, notable colonial Melbourne Herbarium botanist. The specific name describes it as like Psychotria.

William A. Sayer,[7][8] botanical collector associate of Mueller, collected specimens of it about "Mt Bellenden Ker" in 1887 as recorded on the "9/87" label written by Ferdinand von Mueller on his herbarium specimen sent on 15 March 1892 to Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, UK.[9]

"On the Russell River; W. Sayers [sic]", is its location and collector recorded in Ferdinand von Mueller’s 1889 published original botanical description of this species.[1] The region of the Russell River is the same as the region of Mount Bellenden Ker.

Mueller’s 1889 original botanical description of the species was under the name Oldenlandia psychotrioides.[1][4] In 1892 he re-diagnosed it as constituting a species of this genus Wendlandia, after newly describing Wendlandia basistaminea as a species. He provided some comparative notes on them and related species of this genus.[2][3]

References

1. Mueller, Ferdinand von (July 1889). "Descriptions of some new Australian plants: Oldenlandia psychotrioides". Victorian Naturalist. Digitised archive copy, online, through biodiversitylibrary.org. 6 (3): 54–55. Retrieved 9 Aug 2021.
2. Mueller, Ferdinand von (March 1892). "Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations (continued): Wendlandia psychotrioides". Victorian Naturalist. Digitised archive copy, online, through biodiversitylibrary.org. 8 (11): (177–)178. Retrieved 9 Aug 2021.
3. "Wendlandia psychotrioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 15 Mar 2013.
4. "Oldenlandia psychotrioides F.Muell". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
5. Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, The State of Queensland. "Extinct in the wild plants". Last updated 22 January 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
6. Queensland Government (27 Sep 2013). "Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006" (PDF). Nature Conservation Act 1992. Online, accessed from www.legislation.qld.gov.au. Australia. p. 27. Retrieved 1 Dec 2013.
7. Mueller, Ferdinand von (2006). "William A. Sayer, fl. 1886–8, botanical collector". In Home, Roderick Weir; Lucas, A. M.; Maroske, Sara; Sinkora, D. M.; Voigt, J. H.; Wells, Monika (eds.). Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand Von Mueller. Life and letters of Ferdinand von Mueller. Vol. III: 1876–1896. Peter Lang. p. 824. ISBN 978-3-906757-10-0. Retrieved 1 Jan 2014.
8. "Sayer, W. A. (fl. 1886 - 88)". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria – Australian National Herbarium – BIOGRAPHY. 2007. Retrieved 2 Mar 2013. Source: Extracted from: Hall, N. (1978) Botanists of the eucalypts. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne
9. The Herbarium Catalogue (2006). "HerbWeb – Details Page: Specimen: K000760112" (web page and photograph of specimen). RBG Kew Herbarium Catalogue database. Kew, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 2 Mar 2013.