Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Archidendron hendersonii
Gazetted date:
03 Nov 2000
Profile last updated:
11 Oct 2022
Description
White Lace Flower is a tree to 18 m tall, with light-brown bark. Its leaves are divided twice, into glossy hairless leaflets separated unequally by the midvein. Up to ten fragrant, fluffy creamy-white flowers are bunched in heads. Woody orange pods develop, splitting and curling to reveal glossy black seeds displayed against the red or yellow interior of the pod.
Distribution
From north Queensland south to the Richmond River in north-east NSW.
Habitat and ecology
- White Lace Flower occurs in riverine and lowland subtropical rainforest, littoral rainforest, coastal cypress pine forest and their ecotones.
- It is found on a variety of soils including coastal sands and those derived from basalt and metasediments.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Fragmentation and loss of habitat for agriculture.
- Fragmentation and loss of habitat for development.
- Habitat degradation through weed invasion and disturbance.
- Illegal collection of seeds for horticulture.
- Trampling by domestic stock.
- Coastal locations are likely to be exposed to saltwater intrusion, and increased intensity of storms/winds.
- Current or potential future land management practices do not support conservation.
- Disturbance from road and track maintenance activities.
- Inappropriate fire regimes.
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
5 priority actions
to help recover the White Lace Flower in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Protect areas of rainforest habitat from clearing and development.
- Buy White Lace Flower plants only from licensed nurseries.
- Control weeds in areas of known habitat.
- Implement appropriate fire regimes in areas of known habitat.
- Expand and connect remaining remnant patches of habitat.
- Support local Landcare groups and bush regeneration teams raise the profile of the species and undertake onground management.
- Maintain viable exsitu seedbank and/or living collection.
- Monitor population dynamics and threats at known sites.
- Undertake survey to identify unrecorded populations.
Information sources
- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW (2010) Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan - NSW & Queensland. (DECCW NSW, Sydney)
- Harden, G.J. (2002) Archidendron. Pp. 477-8 in Harden, G.J. (ed.) Flora of New South Wales. Revised Edition. Volume 2. (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney)
- NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (2002) Threatened Species of the Upper North Coast of NSW: Flora. (NSW NPWS, Coffs Harbour)
- NSW Scientific Committee (2000) Archidendron hendersonii (a tree) - Vulnerable species determination - final.
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