Styphelia marginata (W.Fitzg.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (2020:150)
Thick-margined leucopogon
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Leucopogon marginatus W.Fitzg. in J. Western Australia Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 27 (1904) [; Axonanthus marginatus W.V. Fitzgerald, 1904:27(?)]
Conservation Status
Last record: September 1903 (Susan & Brown, 2001:146)
Rediscovered in: July 1985 (29th?) (collection) (DEC, 2009:5 [as July 1985]; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:13 [as 1985]); 1992 (recognition) (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:13)
Last record: August 1986 (12th?) (collection) (DEC, 2009:5)
Relocated or Rediscovered in: 1990 (collection) (Susan & Brown, 2001:146); 1996 (O'Donoghue & Atkins, 2000); July 2000 (DEC, 2009:5)
"The type specimen of Leucopogon marginatus was collected from the Arrino Sandplains by W.V. Fitzgerald in September 1903. Further collections of the species were made in July 1985 and in August 1986. The species was then not seen again until July 2000, when it was relocated near the 1986 collection following surveys by Geraldton District staff. During the same month staff from the WA Herbarium collected the species in a nearby Nature Reserve. Further surveys by District staff in 2001 and 2003 resulted in four more populations being found in the same nature reserve and, in 2003, the Geraldton Regional Herbarium Group collected the species from two sites on a Water Reserve. Surveys conducted by District staff during 2004 determined that a large population of the species occurred at this site. During July 2005, as part of a Commonwealth Government funded project to implement conservation actions for Threatened Flora in the Geraldton to Shark Bay Sandplain Biodiversity Hotspot, a botanist contracted to DEC discovered six new populations on private property. A further two new populations, one on private property and one in a gravel reserve, were discovered later in 2005/06.
Most known populations have shown declines, although population 14 shows a substantial increase (from 17 plants in 2005 to 360 plants in 2008). A total of 861 individuals in 26 populations are now known over a range of 100 km."
(DEC, 2009:5)
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fitzgerald, W. V. (1904). Additions to the West Australian flora. Journal of the Western Australian Natural History Society 2(1): 3-36.
Other references:
Atkins, K. (2008). Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia. Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation.
Blackall, W. E. and Grieve, B. J. (1981). How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers IIIB, 2nd ed. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands. [p. 345]
Brown, A., Thomson-Dans, C. and Marchant, N. (eds.). (1998). Western Australia’s Threatened Flora, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
DEC [Department of Environment and Conservation]. (2009). Thick-margined Leucopogon (Leucopogon marginatus) Recovery Plan. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.
Durell, Gregory S. and Buehrig, Robert M. (2001). Declared rare and poorly known flora in the Narrogin District. Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 30. Bentley: Department of Conservation and Land Management. viii + 374 pp.
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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]
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. 74]
Mollemans, F. H., Brown, P. H. and Coates, D. J. (1993). Declared rare flora and other plants in need of special protection in the Merredin District (excluding the Wongan-Ballidu Shire). Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 9. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra, ACT and Department of Conservation and Land Management, Como, W A.
O'Donoghue, Mike and Atkins, Ken. (2000). Lost Jewels in the Bush. Landscope 15(3): 23-27.
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. and Brown, A. P. (2001). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Moora District. Perth: Department of Conservation & Land Management. [pp. 146-147]
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. (1994a). Native Vegetation Handbook for the Shire of Tammin. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth.
Weaving, Sarah J. (1994b). Native Vegetation Handbook for the Shire of Kellerberrin. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth.
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