''Baeckea kandos'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with narrow egg-shaped to linear leaves and small white flowers with ten to twelve

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Description

''Baeckea kandos'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has pink branchlets. The leaves are narrow oblong to linear, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are in diameter and are borne singly in leaf axils on a

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usually long with linear bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are reddish and triangular to more or less round, long and the petals are white, more or less round and long. There are ten to twelve stamens in groups of up to three. The

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has two

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s and the style is about long. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule about long.

Taxonomy

''Baeckea kandos'' was first formally described in 1977 by

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in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens collected near Dunns Swamp in

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. The

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(''kandos'') refers to the town of

Kandos Kandos is a small town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, within Mid-Western Regional Council. The area is the traditional home of the Dabee tribe, of the Wiradjuri people. The town sits beneath Cumber Melon Mountain (fro ...

, near where the

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specimens were collected.

Distribution and habitat

''Baeckea kandos'' grows in heathland or shrubland but is only known from two populations in Wollemi National Park, numbering about 100 plants.

Conservation status

This baeckea is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' and the New South Wales Government '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''. The main threats to the species are activities associated with track maintenance, inappropriate fire regimes and its small population size.

References

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kandos Kandos is a small town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, within Mid-Western Regional Council. The area is the traditional home of the Dabee tribe, of the Wiradjuri people. The town sits beneath Cumber Melon Mountain (fro ...

Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1977 Taxa named by Anthony Bean