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Spyridium microcephalum (Turcz.) Benth. (1863:434)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Cryptandra microcephala Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 31(I): 458 (1858); Spyridium denticuliferum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 35: 355 (1904)

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1858 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:19)

Rediscovered in 1996 (taxonomic revision) (Rye, 1996; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:19)

 

Distribution

Western Australia, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Briggs, J. & Leigh, J. (1988). Rare or threatened Australian plants , rev. ed.: 1-277.

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. 59] 

O'Donoghue, Mike and Atkins, Ken. (2000). Lost Jewels in the Bush. Landscope 15(3): 23-27.

Rye, B. L. (1996). A synopsis of the genera Pomaderris, Siegfriedia, Spyridium and Trymalium (Rhamnaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(1): 109-131. 

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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