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Senecio tasmanicus I.Thomps., 2004:158

Tasmanian fireweed

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Wapstra et al., 2006:71 [as 'Possibly extant']; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4 [as 'Possibly extant']) or Extinct (Buchanan, 2005; Tasmanian Plant Census, 2017)

Last record: 1888 (Wapstra et al., 2006:71; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:4)

 

"People should also watch out for S. tasmanicus, listed as extinct in the Census (Buchanan, 2005) but not yet on the Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. It too is likely to have simply been overlooked since 1888, when it was last collected"

(Wapstra et al., 2006:71)

 

Distribution

Tasmania, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Thompson, I. R. (2004). Taxonomic studies of Australian Senecio (Asteraceae): 1. the disciform species. Muelleria 19: 101-214.

 

Other references:

Buchanan, A. M. (2005). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania & Index to the Student’s Flora of Tasmania. Fourth Edition. (Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Occasional Publication No. 7: Hobart.

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]

Thompson, I. R. (2015). 9. Senecio, pp. 209-307 [230]. In: Wilson, Annette (ed.). Flora of Australia Volume 37, Asteraceae 1. Melbourne: ABRS/CSIRO Australia. xxii + 638 pp.

I.R.Thompson (2017) Senecio tasmanicus. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Senecio%20tasmanicus [Date Accessed: 14 January 2020]

Wapstra, Mark, Duncan, Fred, Buchanan, Alex and Schahinger, Richard. (2006). Finding a botanical Lazarus: tales of Tasmanian plant species 'risen from the dead'. The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 61-85.

Wapstra, Mark, Thompson, I. R. and Buchanan, A. M. (2008). An illustrated and annotated key to the Tasmanian species of Senecio (Asteraceae). Kanunnah 3: 49-93.

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