Lepyrodia heleocharoides Gilg (1904:87)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1900 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:18)
Rediscovered in 1976 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:18)
Was listed as Extinct by (WCMC, 1992:225).
Distribution & Habitat
Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
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]
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
Williams, Kim, Horan, Andrew, Wood, Scott and Webb, Andrew. (2001). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Central Forest Region. Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 33. Department of Conservation and Land Management.