Commidendrum rotundifolium

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Bastard gumwood
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Commidendrum
Species: C. rotundifolium
Binomial name
Commidendrum rotundifolium
(Roxb.) DC.

The Bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium) is a species of trees, which was thought to be extinct, but one last tree was discovered in Horse Pasture in 1982. This last one was destroyed in 1986 by a gale.

[edit] Source

  • Cairns-Wicks, R. 2003. Commidendrum rotundifolium. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.