List of extinct plants

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The following is a list of extinct plants only.

Prehistoric extinctions[edit]

Further information: Paleobotany

Extinct taxa by geologic period[edit]

Carboniferous[edit]

Permian[edit]

Triassic[edit]

Jurassic[edit]

Cretaceous[edit]

Paleocene[edit]

Eocene[edit]

Oligocene[edit]

Miocene[edit]

Pliocene[edit]

Pleistocene[edit]

Modern extinctions[edit]

Africa[edit]

Saint Helena Olive (Nesiota elliptica)

Americas[edit]

Asia[edit]

Europe[edit]

Oceania[edit]

Plants extinct in the wild[edit]

Africa[edit]

Americas[edit]

Asia[edit]

Europe[edit]

Oceania[edit]

Extinct plant cultivars[edit]

Plants previously thought extinct and subsequently rediscovered[edit]

See Lazarus species

  • Badula ovalifolia – from Mauritius. Known in 1830's; collected in 1970 and 1997 but misidentified (Page and D'Argent 1997, IUCN report)/confirmed identity in 2008 (Florens et al., Kew Bulletin)
  • Café marron (Ramosmania rodriguesii) - rediscovered on Rodrigues in 1979
  • Jellyfish tree (Medusagyne oppositifolia) - rediscovered in Seychelles in the 1970s
  • Sichuan Thuja – (Thuja sutchuenensis) – rediscovered 1999 (Sichuan, China)
  • Gibraltar Campion (Silene tomentosa) - rediscovered on Gibraltar in 1994
  • Astragalus nitidiflorus (1909, Spain) - rediscovered 2004 (Cartagena, Spain)

Extinct algae[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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