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; de Salas & Baker, 2017; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record (disputed): 1844 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 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.

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]

de Salas, M. F. and Baker, M. L. (2017). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island. Hobart: Tasmanian Herbarium / Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

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 20 May 2024]

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]

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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