Barbarea australis Hook.f. (1852:14)
Riverbed wintercress
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1835 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12); 1830's (February 1837 or later)?
Rediscovered in 1982 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12)
Distribution
Tasmania, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hooker, J. D. (1859). Flora Tasmaniae (Botany of the Antarctic voyage: volume 3). Lovell Reeve, London.
Other references:
Curtis, W. M. (1956). The Student’s Flora of Tasmania Part 1. Gymnospermae Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. Hobart: Government Printer.
Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Hewson, H. J. (1982). Brassicaceae. In Flora of Australia Vol 8 Lecythidales to Batales (A.S. George, editor). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
Kirkpatrick, J. B. and Gilfedder, L. (1998). Conserving weedy natives: two Tasmanian endangered herbs in the Brassicaceae. Australian Journal of Ecology 23: 466-473.
Rodway, L. (1903). The Tasmanian Flora. Hobart: Government Printer.
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]
Wapstra, Mark et al. (2006). Finding a botanical Lazarus: tales of Tasmanian plant species 'risen from the dead'. The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 61-85.