Calamagrostis drummondii (Steud.) Govaerts (1999:10)
Drummond's grass, Drummond grass
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pentapogon drummondii Steud. in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 193 (1854); Deyeuxia drummondii (Steud.) Vickery in Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb. 1: 49 (1940)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1854?; 1867 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)
Rediscovered in 1995 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)
"Collected by Drummond somewhere between Swan River and Cape Riche in 1854, then from two localities in 1867; not re-found until 1995 (although 1976 specimen existed, which was only correctly determined in 1996)"
(Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Vickery, J. W. (1940). A Revision of the Australian Species of Deyeuxia Clar. ex Beauv., with Notes on the Status of the Genera Calamagrostis and Deyeuxia, Natl. Herb. 1: 49-53.
Other references:
Barrett, S. (1996). Biological Survey of Mountains of southern Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Albany.
Briggs, J. & Leigh, J. (1988). Rare or threatened Australian plants , rev. ed.: 1-277.
Clayton, W. D., Harman, K. T. and Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cochrane, A. and Barrett, S. (2000). Drummond’s grass: from presumed extinct to perched on mountain summits. Landscope 16(2): 43-47.
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.
O'Donoghue, Mike and Atkins, Ken. (2000). Lost Jewels in the Bush. Landscope 15(3): 23-27.
Phillimore, Robyn et al. (2001). Interim Recovery Plan No, 86. Drummond's Grass (Deyeuxia drummondii), Interim Recovery Plan 2001-2004. Department of Conservation and Land Management. 9 pp.
Robinson, Christopher J. and Coates, David J. (1995). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Albany District. Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 20. Canberra: Australian Nature Conservation Agency / Como, Western Australia: Department of Conservation and Land Management. ix + 615 pp.
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.
Wilson, A. (ed.). (2009). Flora of Australia 44A: 1-410. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1998/07/Two-more-species-of-flora-presumed-extinct-rediscovered-(AMin).aspx
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2086/deyeuxia-drummondii
http://www.wa.liberal.org.au/item/3878?print=1&tmpl=component