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Proteales

 

Family: Nelumbonaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Platanaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Proteaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile

Adenanthos × cunninghamii

Meisn. (1845) Albany woollybush, Prostrate woollybush, boyur (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             

Banksia aculeata

A.S.George (1981) Prickly banksia (rediscovered) south-west Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             

Banksia audax

C.A.Gardner (1927) Dwarf dryland banksia (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Banksia kingii Jordan & Hill (1991) King's banksia Late Pleistocene Tasmania, Australia Extinct Access
             
Banksia plagiocarpa
A.S.George (1981) Dallachy's Banksia, Blue Banksia (rediscovered) Hitchinbrook Island and adjacent mainland, Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Banksia sphaerocarpa latifolia F.Muell. ex Benth. (1870) - (rediscovered) Porongurup Range & Mount Barker district, Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             

Beauprea penariensis

Guillaumin (1935) - 1872 or 1876 Mt. Pénari, New Caledonia Missing Access
             
Conospermum caeruleum contortum
E. M. Benn. (1995) - 29 October 1948 Western Australia, Australia Missing or Extinct Access
             

Conospermum galeatum

E.M.Benn. (1995) - (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Diastella buekii (Gand.) Rourke (1976) Franschhoek silkypuff (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Faurea lucida De Wild. (1929) - 1915 DR Congo Missing Access
             
Grevillea batrachioides
F.Muell. ex McGill. (1986) Mount Lesueuer grevillea (rediscovered) Mid West region, Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea beadleana McGill. (1986) Beadle's Grevillea (rediscovered) New South Wales, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea divaricata R.Br. (1830) - 1823 north of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia Missing or Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea flexuosa
(Lindl.) Meisn. (1845) Tangled grevillea, Zig Zag grevillea (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             

Grevillea lissopleura

McGill. (1986) - (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Relocated or Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea molyneuxii McGill. (1986)
Wingello grevillea
(rediscovered) New South Wales, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea rara Olde & Marriott (1993) Rare grevillea (rediscovered) near Collie, Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered in the wild Access
             
Grevillea rosmarinifolia rosmarinifolia A.Cunn. (1825) - (rediscovered) New South Wales, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea scabra Meisn. (1845) - (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Grevillea scapigera A.S..George (1974) Corrigin grevillea (rediscovered) Corrigin area, Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered in the Wild Access
             

Grevillea speckiana

Olde (2021) - 24 September 1953 Shark Bay region, Western Australia, Australia Missing Access
             
Grevillea williamsonii F.Müll. (1893) Williamson's grevillea (rediscovered) Victoria, Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Hakea crassinervia Meisn. (1845) - 16 March 1840 or later Western Australia, Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Hakea pulvinifera L.A.S.Johnson (1962) Lake Keepit hakea (rediscovered) near Lake Keepit, New South Wales, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Hakea tamminensis C.A.Gardner (1964) - ? Western Australia, Australia Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Helicia subcordata Foreman (1985) - (rediscovered) Papua New Guinea Rediscovered Access
             
Isopogon uncinatus R.Br. (1830) - (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Leucadendron elimense vyeboomense
I.Williams (1972)
Vyeboom conebush (rediscovered) Viljoen's Pass to Theewaterskloof Dam, Western Cape Province, South Africa Rediscovered (twice) Access
             
Leucadendron spirale (Salisb. ex Knight) I.Williams (1967) Wolseley conebush 1933 Breede River Valley between Wolseley and Botha, Western Cape Province, South Africa Extinct Access
             
Leucadendron vinimontis Rebelo (2022) Mountain rose, Wynberg conebush 1806 Wynberg Hill, Cape Town, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape Province, South Africa Extinct Access
             
Leucospermum glabrum E.Phillips (1910) Outeniqua pincushion, Outeniekwa-kreupelhout (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Mimetes stokoei E.Phillips & Hutch. (1922) Mace pagoda (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Panopsis hernandezii L.E.Gut. (1992 "1991") - 1988 Colombia Missing Access
             
Persoonia laxa
L.A.S. Johnson & P.H. Weston (1991) - June 1908 New South Wales, Australia Missing or Extinct Access
             
Persoonia leucopogon S.Moore (1899) - (rediscovered) Western Australia, Australia Rediscovered Access
             
Persoonia prostrata R.Br. (1810) - 31 July 1802 or later; 1901? Fraser Island (northern tip), Queensland, Australia (eastern) Missing or Extinct Access
             

Protea odorata

Thunb. (1800) Swartland sugarbush (rediscovered) Western Cape Province, South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Roupala tobagensis Sleumer (1955) - 1910 Trinidad & Tobago Missing Access
             
Serruria ciliata congesta (R.Br.) Hutch. (year?) Macassar spiderhead 1980's South Africa Extinct or Extinct in the wild or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Serruria furcellata R.Br. (1810) Kraaifontain spiderhead (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Serruria scoparia R.Br. (1810) Forlorn spiderhead (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Sorocephalus crassifolius Hutch. (1912) Flowerless clusterhead 2001 Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Sorocephalus palustris
Rourke (1969) Mat clusterhead 1984 or 1997 Kogelberg, Western Cape Province, South Africa Missing Access
             
Sorocephalus tenuifolius (Knight) R.Br. (1810) Diminutive clusterhead (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access
             
Stenocarpus dumbeensis
Guillaumin (1935) - 1905 Nouméa region, New Caledonia Extinct or Rediscovered Access
             
Stenocarpus villosus Brongn. & Gris (1865) - 1860 New Caledonia Rediscovered? Access
             
Triunia robusta (C.White) D.Foreman (1986) Glossy spice bush (rediscovered) Queensland, Australia Rediscovered Access

 

 

Family: Sabiaceae

–No subordinate taxa

 

 

Appendix 1: Forms that were rediscovered

Banksia elegans 'Fraser Road form' / 'northern large flowering form'

 

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