Philotheca falcata (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson (1998:251)
Sickle-leaved waxflower
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Eriostemon falcatus Paul G.Wilson in Nuytsia 1: 34 (1970)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1931 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:19); October 1931 or later
Rediscovered in 2007 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:19)
Distribution
Yellowdine area, Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wilson, Paul Graham. (1998). A taxonomic review of the genera Eriostemon and Philotheca (Rutaceae: Boronieae). Nuytsia 12(2): 239-265.
Other references:
Brown, A., C. Thomson-Dans & N. Marchant, eds. (1998). Western Australia's Threatened Flora. Como, Western Australia: Department of Conservation and Land Management.
Department of the Environment. (2015). Philotheca falcata in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Sat, 7 Feb 2015 18:37:43 +1100.
Hearn, Roger W., Meissner, Rachel, Brown, Andrew P., Macfarlane, Terry D. and Annels, Tony R. (2006). Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Warren Region. Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 40. Jointly published by Australian Government Department of Environment and Heritage (Canberra) & Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management (Bentley DC). x + 305 pp.
Hnatiuk, R.J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
Hopper, S.D., S. van Leeuwen, A.P. Brown & S.J. Patrick (1990). Western Australia's Endangered Flora and other plants under consideration for declaration. Perth, Western Australia: Department of Consrvation and Land Management.
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]
Leigh, John H., Boden, Robert and Briggs, John D. (1984). Extinct and Endangered Plants of Australia. South Melbourne, Victoria: The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd. viii + 369 pp.
Mollemans, F. H. (1996). The search for Eriostemon falcatus, a presumed extinct species from southern Western Australia. W. Austral. Nat. 21(1): 55-57.
Mollemans, F. H. (1998). Drummondita wilsonii, Philotheca langei and P. basistyla (Rutaceae), new species from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 9(1): 95-109.
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.
Western Australian Herbarium (2013). FloraBase: The Western Australian Flora. [Online]. Available from: http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/.
Wilson, Paul Graham. (1970). A Taxonomic Revision of the genera Crowea, Eriostemon and Phebalium (Rutaceae). Nuytsia. 1:1-155.
Wilson, Paul Graham. (2013). Philotheca, pp. 366-415 [383]. In: Wilson, Annette (ed.). Flora of Australia Volume 26, Meliaceae, Rutaceae, Zygophyllaceae. Melbourne: ABRS/CSIRO Australia. xx + 612 pp.
http://www.ecologia.com.au/articles/Extinct-plant-redisc