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Caesia rigidifolia F.Muell. (1876:48)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered [by implication]

 

Treated as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019), but it has been recorded in biological surveys of the Great Victoria Desert since at least 2013, and was thus presumably Rediscovered.

 

Distribution & Habitat

Queen Victoria Springs, Western Australia, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 25 July 2025]

WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/

 

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