Hemigenia exilis S.Moore (1900:216)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1895 (Mattner, 2002:11; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:15)
Rediscovered in (disputed): 1989 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:15); 1995 (Mattner, 2002:11); 1996 (O'Donoghue & Atkins, 2000)
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Moore, S. ([1898-1900 publ. 1899]). [description of Hemigenia exilis]. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 34: 216-217.
Other references:
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022a). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022b). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. Nature Plants 8: 1370-1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01293-w
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Guerin, G. (2006). Systematics and biology of Hemigenia R.Br. and Microcorys R.Br. (Lamiaceae). PhD thesis, University of Adelaide, 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]
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. 79]
Mattner, Julia. (2002). The conservation biology of Hemigenia exilis (Lamiaceae), a serpentine endemic from the arid zone of Western Australia. PhD thesis, The University of Western Australia.
Mattner, Julia, Zawko, G., Rossetto, M., Krauss, S. L., Dixon, K. W. and Sivasithamparam, K. (2002). Conservation genetics and implications for restoration of Hemigenia exilis (Lamiaceae), a serpentine endemic from Western Australia. Biological Conservation 107(1): 37-45. [Abstract]
O'Donoghue, Mike and Atkins, Ken. (2000). Lost Jewels in the Bush. Landscope 15(3): 23-27.
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.