Ribes sardoum, commonly called Sardinian Currant, is a species of plant

Plant

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 in the Grossulariaceae family. It is endemic to Italy

Italy

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, only occuring on the island of Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

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Distribution

Ribes sardoum occurs only at one site in Sardinia, occurring around 900 metres (2,952.8 ft) above sea level, in a small south-east facing valley. The species grows on limestone substrates.

Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are in Mediterranean shrubby vegetation

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

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 and rocky areas. It is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered plant species

IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species (Plantae)

On 29 January 2010, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 1701 critically endangered species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and subpopulations in the Plantae...

 and IUCN Top 50 Campaign Mediterranean Island Plants, threatened by habitat loss. The total number of individuals is about 100.

Source

• Camarda, I. 2006. Ribes sardoum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.

External links

• IUCN Red List: Ribes sardoum
• http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2005-025.pdf IUCN - Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants: Ribes sardoum (