Lepidium merrallii F.Muell. (1890:114)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (fide Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last recorded in 1895 (Patrick, 2001:215) before being recorded again in 1981 (Patrick, 2001:215), which is presumably the gap being referred to by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Briggs, John D. and Leigh, John H. (1996). Rare or Threatened Australian Plants, 1995 revised edition. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing. x + 466 pp.
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]
Marchant, N. G. and Keighery, G. J. (1979). Poorly collected and presumably rare vascular plants of Western Australia. Kings Park Research Notes No. 5. West Perth: Kings Park and Botanic Garden. 103 pp.
Patrick, Susan J. (2001). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Geraldton District. Western Australian wildlife management program No. 26. Bantley DC: Department of Conservation and Land Management. 89 pp.
Patrick, Susan J. (2002). Flora and vegetation of Burnerbinmah Station: a study of the plant communities in the Mulga shrublands of the Murchison Region, Western Australia. Conservation Science W. Aust. 4(3): 72-93.