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List Of Threatened Flora Of Australia
The list of threatened flora of Australia includes all plant species listed as critically endangered or endangered in Australia under the ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (EPBC Act). Critically endangered Endangered See also *Flora of Australia * List of extinct flora of Australia *ROTAP *Threatened fauna of Australia References External links * Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)licence. {{DEFAULTSORT:Threatened flora of Australia Threatened Lists of plants of Australia .Australia Australian plants Australian plants The Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) (ANPSA) is a federation of seven state-based member organisations for people interested in Australia's native flora, both in aspects of conservation and in cultivation. A national conference is h ... .T . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentipallium Spiceri
''Argentipallium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus, which is endemic to Australia, was first formally described in 1992 by Paul G. Wilson in the botanical journal '' Nutsyia.'' ; Species * '' Argentipallium blandowskianum'' (Steetz ex Sonder) Paul G.Wilson * '' Argentipallium dealbatum'' (Labill.) Paul G.Wilson * '' Argentipallium niveum'' (Steetz) Paul G.Wilson * '' Argentipallium obtusifolium'' (Sonder) Paul G.Wilson * ''Argentipallium spiceri ''Argentipallium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus, which is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or oth ...'' (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson * '' Argentipallium tephrodes'' (Turcz.) Paul G.Wilson References Asteraceae genera Endemic flora of Australia Taxa named by Paul Graham Wilson {{Gnaphalieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachyscias Verecundus
''Brachyscias'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. Its only species is ''Brachyscias verecundus'' (common name - ironstone brachyscias), described in 1999, from Southwest Australia Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Aus .... Conservation status It is listed as critically endangered under the Australian government's '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'', due to there being just one confirmed population and extreme fluctuations in the number of mature individuals, together with a continuing decline in the habitat quality. Threats include "firebreak maintenance activities, lack of appropriate disturbance, inappropriate fire regimes, mineral exploration, hydrological changes, weed invasion and rabbits". References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachychiton Sp
''Brachychiton'' (kurrajong, bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia (the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species). Fossils from New South Wales and New Zealand are estimated to be 50 million years old, corresponding to the Paleogene. They grow to 4 – 30m tall, and some are dry-season deciduous. Several species (though not all) are pachycaul plants with a very stout stem for their overall size, used to store water during periods of drought. The leaves show intraspecific variation and generally range from entire to deeply palmately lobed with long slender leaflet-like lobes joined only right at the base. Their sizes range from 4 – 20 cm long and wide. All species are monoecious with separate male and female flowers on the same plant. The flowers have a bell-shaped perianth consisting of a single series of fused lobes which is regarded as a calyx despite being brightly coloured in most species. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boehmeria Australis
''Boehmeria'' is a genus of 47 species of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae. Of the species, 33 are indigenous to the Old World and 14 to the New World; no species is indigenous to both the Old and New Worlds. The species include herbaceous perennials, shrubs and small trees. Although related to the similar-looking species of the stinging nettles of genus ''Urtica'', species of ''Boehmeria'' do not have stinging hairs. Because of the similarity in appearance, some species are commonly called "false nettles". This genus is named in honor of the German botanist, Georg Rudolf Boehmer. Fossil record 14 fossil fruits of †''Boehmeria sibirica'' have been extracted from borehole samples of the Middle Miocene fresh water deposits in Nowy Sacz Basin, West Carpathians, Poland. Cultivation and uses One species, ramie (''Boehmeria nivea'') is an important fibre crop. Some are also used as ornamental plants. ''Boehmeria'' species are used as food plants by the larvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbarea Australis
''Barbarea australis'', commonly known as native wintercress or riverbed wintercress, is a morphologically and ecologically typical '' Barbarea'' species with an unusual distribution: it is an endemic and threatened species from Tasmania. The leaves have a large end-lobe and only few side lobes, much like the leaf-shape of ''Barbarea stricta'' and ''Barbarea orthoceras''. With regard to defence chemicals ( glucosinolates), it is similar to other members of the genus. Cultivation Although the plant remains critically endangered in the wild, Native wintercress is available for home garden cultivation. All above-ground parts of the plant are edible, with the leaves tasting similar to rocket A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely fr .... References australis Flora of Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Fuscobractea
''Banksia fuscobractea'', commonly known as the dark-bract banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It has prickly, serrated, wedge-shaped leaves, pale yellow and cream-coloured flowers in heads of up to almost two hundred, and three or four egg-shaped follicles in each head. Description ''Banksia fuscobractea'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has stems covered in thick, matted hairs, but does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are wedge-shaped in outline, long and wide on a petiole long, with between four and nine sharply-pointed serrations on each side. The flowers are borne on a head containing between 180 and 190 flowers. There are linear involucral bracts long at the base of the head. The flowers have a pale yellow perianth long and a cream-coloured pistil long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is an egg-shaped, loosely-hairy follicle long. Each head has only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Aurantia
''Banksia aurantia'', commonly known as the orange dryandra, is a shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has underground stems, deeply divided leaves with 18 to 28 lobes on each sides, about eighty pale orange-pink flowers in each inflorescence, and egg-shaped follicles. Description ''Banksia aurantia'' is a prostrate shrub that has underground stems and reaches a height of . The leaves are long and wide and deeply divided with 18 to 28 tapering, linear lobes on each side and prominent veins on the lower surface. The inflorescence develops on the end of the stem, with about eighty flowers with hairy, rusty red, egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts at the base, the perianth pale orange-pink and long. Flowering occurs in April and the fruit is a broadly egg-shaped follicle long and wide. Taxonomy The orange dryandra was first described as ''Dryandra aurantia'' in 1996 by Alex George, who collected the type material with Margaret Pieroni on 26 April 1994 at Little Dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia Anatona
''Banksia anatona'', commonly known as the cactus dryandra, is a flowering plant in the family, Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a tall, spindly shrub with unusually large fruiting follicles. It is only known from a single location and has been classified as ''Critically Endangered'' nationally under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The only known population is in danger of extinction from dieback disease. Description ''Banksia anatona'' is a shrub with a single stem and short side branches, sometimes growing to a height of . Unlike many others in the Banksia genus, it does not have a lignotuber. The branches are covered with a layer of matted hairs. The leaves are wedge-shaped with the narrow end towards the base, have a hairy stalk long and a leaf blade long and wide. The upper surface of the leaf blade is hairy at first, but becomes glabrous with age and the lower surface is covered with a layer of matted hairs. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azorella Macquariensis
''Azorella macquariensis'', also known as Macquarie azorella or Macquarie cushions, is a species of cushion plant endemic to Australia’s subantarctic Macquarie Island. It was referred to the more widely distributed ''Azorella selago'' until 1989, when it was described as a separate species.Tasmanian Threatened Species Notesheet (2009) Description ''Azorella macquariensis'' is a perennial cushion-forming herb. Individuals form cushions and mats that may vary in size from a few centimetres to several metres in diameter and up to 60 cm in height. It is a keystone species dominating Macquarie's feldmark habitat, in which it is the only vascular plant, forming a major structural component of the vegetation. The feldmark community covers about half the island in the most wind-exposed areas of the plateau some 200–400 m above sea level. The plant flowers from December to February and fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atalaya Brevialata
Atalaya (Spanish for watchtower) may refer to: Places Spain * Atalaya, Badajoz, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura * Atalaya (Madrid), a ward in Madrid * Atalaya del Cañavate, a municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha * La Atalaya, Salamanca, a municipality in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León * Atalaya Castle (Spain), a Moorish structure in Villena, province of Alicante * La Atalaya, a former village that was destroyed to expand the Corta Atalaya open-pit mine * Atalayas de Alcalá, ''(Talaies d'Alcalà)'', a mountain range in the Valencian Community Puerto Rico * Atalaya, Aguada, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Atalaya, Rincón, Puerto Rico, a barrio Elsewhere * Atalaya, Buenos Aires, a settlement in Magdalena Partido, Argentina * Atalaya, a part of the Guatemalan archaeological site Q'umarkaj * Atalaya District, Veraguas Province, Panama * Atalaya, Veraguas, capital of Atalaya District, Panama * Atalaya Province, Peru * Atalaya, Ucay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Island
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It lies northwest of Perth and south of Singapore. It has an area of . Christmas Island had a population of 1,692 residents , the majority living in settlements on the northern edge of the island. The main settlement is Flying Fish Cove. Historically, Asian Australians of Chinese, Malay, and Indian descent formed the majority of the population. Today, around two-thirds of the island's population is estimated to have Straits Chinese origin (though just 22.2% of the population declared a Chinese ancestry in 2021), with significant numbers of Malays and European Australians and smaller numbers of Straits Indians and Eurasians. Several languages are in use, including English, Malay, and various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
