Haloragis platycarpa Benth. (1864:478)
Broad-fruited haloragis
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1842 or before (Hussey, 2006); pre-1863 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:14)
Rediscovered on 6 October 2000 (Orchard et al., 2005)
This species was considered possibly extinct by (Orchard, 1990), with no records for nearly 150 years. It was rediscovered on 6 October 2000 (Orchard et al., 2005).
Distribution
Western Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bentham, George. (1864). Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory. London, Lovell Reeve and Company. 2: 478
Other references:
Atkins, K. (2008). Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.
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Brown, A., Thomson-Dans, C. and Marchant, N. (eds.). (1998). Western Australia's Threatened Flora. Como, Western Australia: Department of Conservation and Land Management.
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Department of Environment and Conservation. (2009). Broad-Fruited Haloragis (Haloragis platycarpa) Recovery Plan. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.
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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]
Hussey, Penny. (2006). Rediscovery of Haloragis platycarpa. [Journal?] [2006]: 17.
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. 71]
Mollemans, F. H., Brown, P. H. and Coates, D. J. (1993). Declared rare flora and other plants in need of special protection in the Merredin District (excluding the Wongan-Ballidu Shire). Western Australia Department of Conservation and Land Management.
Orchard, A. E. (1990). Haloragaceae, pp. 5-85 [21-22]. In: George, Alexander S. (ed.). Flora of Australia Volume 18, Podostemaceae to Combretaceae. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. xvi + 349 pp. [possibly extinct]
A.E.Orchard (2017) Haloragis platycarpa. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Haloragis%20platycarpa [Date Accessed: 13 January 2020]
Orchard, A. E., Lepschi, B. J. and Hislop, M. (2005). New taxa, a new record and a rediscovery in Western Australian Haloragis (Haloragaceae). Nuytsia 15(3): 431-443.
Schindler, A. K. (1905). Halorrhagaceae. In: Engler, H. G. A. Das Planzenreich 23: 1-113.
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.