Frankenia conferta Diels (1904:389)
Silky frankenia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1890 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:14)
Rediscovered in 1999 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:14); 2000/2001
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Diels, L. and Pritzel, E. (1904). Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae occidentalis : Beitrage zur kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebens-Verhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35: 389.
Other references:
Atkins, K. (2008). Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.
Barnsley, B. (1982). Frankeniaceae, pp. 112-146. Flora of Australia Volume 8 Lecythidales to Batales. Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales.
Brown, A., Thomson-Dans, C. and Marchant, N. (eds.). (1998). Western Australia’s Threatened Flora. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
Department of Environment and Conservation. (2009). Silky Frankenia (Frankenia conferta) Recovery Plan. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.
Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
Harris, A. (2004). Population characteristics of Frankenia conferta (Silky Frankenia). Unpublished report to the WA Threatened Species and Communities Unit. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
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]
Lyons, M. N., Gibson, N. G., Keighery, G. J. and Lyons, S. D. (2004). Wetland flora and vegetation of the Western Australian wheatbelt. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 67: 39-89.
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. [p. 64]
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]
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.
Weaving, Sarah J. (1994). Native Vegetation Handbook for the Shire of York. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth.