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Ptilotus caespitulosus F.Muell., 1868:232

Salt lake mulla-mulla

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered

 

"The Fitzgerald’s Mulla-mulla was thought to be extinct until collections made in 1987 that had been misidentified as Ptilotus caespitulosus were correctly identified as Ptilotus fasciculatus in 2000."

Source: http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/6aabaa50-2b26-48e1-a38e-96b3692715da/files/ptilotus-fasciculatus-listing.pdf

 

Distribution

Western Australia, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Abell, Peter and Oates, John. (1996). Identification of Ptilotus species (Mulla Mulla) suitable for domestication and breeding for the cut and dried flower trade. Ptilotus Final Report. Australian Flora Foundation Inc.

Albani Rocchetti, G., Carta, A., Mondoni, A. et al. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]

Hearn, Roger W., Meissner, Rachel, Brown, Andrew P., Macfarlane, Terry D. and Annels, Tony R. (2006). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Warren Region. Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 40. Jointly published by Australian Government Department of Environment and Heritage (Canberra) & Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management (Bentley DC). x + 305 pp.

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. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Silcock, J. L. et al. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177.

Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261

https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2703

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/3300/ptilotus-caespitulosus

 

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