Ozothamnus selaginoides Sond. & F.Muell. (1853:510)

Clubmoss everlasting, Table Mountain daisy bush

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Helichrysum selaginoides (Sond. & F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. in Fl. Austral. 3: 634 (1867)

Conservation Status

Missing (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4 [as 'Possibly extinct']) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024) or Rediscovered (ex-situ) (Abeli et al., 2022b)

Last record: 1849 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

At least several unsuccesful searches for the species have taken place (Kirkpatrick & Gilfedder, 1999:21; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4). Cultivated at the St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, UK according to (Abeli et al., 2022b). Previously thought to have been rediscovered (in the wild) in 2000 but this turned out to be the new species O. reflexifolius (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4).

Distribution

Table Mountain area, Tasmania, Australia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022a). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1

Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022b). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. Nature Plants 8: 1370-1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01293-w

Briggs, J. & Leigh, J. (1988). Rare or threatened Australian plants , rev. ed.: 1-277.

Burbidge, N. T. (1958). A monographic study of Helichrysum subgenus Ozothamnus (Compositae) and of two related genera formerly included therein. Australian Journal of Botany 6: 229-284.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]

Curtis, W. M. (1963). The Student's flora of Tasmania. Part 2. Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. Hobart: Government Printer.

Hawkes, J. G., Maxted, N. and Ford-Lloyd, B. V. (2000). Field Gene Banks, Botanic Gardens In Vitro, DNA and Pollen Conservation, pp. 92-107. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hnatiuk, R.J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.

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]

Kirkpatrick, J. B. and Gilfedder, L. A. (1999). Threatened plant species in your bush (Kit 5). In: Tasmanian bushcare toolkit. Hobart: Department of Primary Industries Water and Environment.

Leeson, Kevin E. and Rozefelds, Andrew C. (2003). A new endemic Ozothamnus species (Asteraceae) from Tasmania, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 16(3): 317-322. [Abstract]

Leigh, J., R. Boden & J. Briggs (1984). Extinct and Endangered Plants of Australia. Melbourne, Victoria: Macmillan.

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 6 November 2024]

Profile for Tasmania's Threatened Species Link. http://tsl-internet.dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ozothamnus-selaginoides Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania. Accessed on 7/2/2015.

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]

Threatened Species Section. (2015). Ozothamnus selaginoides (table mountain everlastingbush): Species Management

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

Wapstra, Mark et al. (2006). Finding a botanical Lazarus: tales of Tasmanian plant species 'risen from the dead'. The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 61-85.

Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261

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