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Leichhardtia tubulosa (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. (2021:15)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Marsdenia tubulosa F.Muell. in Fragm. 9: 71 (1875)

 

Conservation Status

Last (and only) record: 1871 (Wilson, 1994:293; DECC NSW, 2007; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:11)

Rediscovered in 2009 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:11)

 

Still lised as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2023)

 

Distribution

summit of Mt Gower, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW). (2007). Lord Howe Island Biodiversity Management Plan Appendices. Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), Sydney. vii + 267 pp.

Forster, P. I. (2021). Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 1-18.

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]

POWO. (2023). Leichhardtia tubulosa (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 December 2023]

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.

W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.

Wilson, Annette J. G. (ed.). (1994). Flora of Australia Volume 49, Oceanic Islands 1. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. xxiii + 681 pp. [p. 293]

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