Thomasia gardneri Paust, 1974:353
Mt Holland thomasia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:7 [as Possibly extinct]) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; POWO, 2023)
Last record: 1929 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:7)
"Known from seven collections, apparently all from same place, by C.A. Gardner in September 1929. Local Narrogin naturalists many years ago scoured Mt Holland area itself for a whole day after fire + lots of searches by Narrogin flora officer some years ago"
(Silcock et al., 2019:SM:7)
Distribution & Habitat
near Mt. Holland, Western Australia, Australia
"Banded ironstone hill"
(Silcock et al., 2019:SM:7)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Paust, S. (1974). Taxonomic studies in Thomasia and Lasiopetalum (Sterculiaceae). Nuytsia 1(4): 348-366.
Other references:
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (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]
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POWO. (2023). Thomasia gardneri Paust. 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]
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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
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