Fleshy Minuria - profile

Indicative distribution

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The areas shown in pink and/purple are the sub-regions where the species or community is known or predicted to occur. They may not occur thoughout the sub-region but may be restricted to certain areas. ( click here to see geographic restrictions). The information presented in this map is only indicative and may contain errors and omissions.

Scientific name: Kippistia suaedifolia

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Profile last updated: 29 Jun 2022

Description

Strongly aromatic, hairless, compact subshrub to 60 cm high, with a thick woody base. The stems are erect and much-branched and the older woody stems sometimes gnarled. Leaves bright green, linear with a down-curved point at the tip, 8-24 mm long and 0.5 mm wide. Flowerheads with short yellow "petals" and a yellow centre, borne on short stalks at the ends of the branches. Seeds all hairless and less than 1 mm long, the outer ones crowned with a tuft of saw-toothed bristles, which are often united for about half their length to form a jagged cylindrical tube. Highly aromatic and unpalatable to vertebrates.

Distribution

Recorded from several collections near Conoble in the Ivanhoe district. This locality is an open-cast gypsum mine (Marlow Gypsum Mine), located 22 km north of Conoble railway siding. Also reported from the Scotia mapsheet area in far south-western NSW.

Habitat and ecology

Grows around saline lakes and depressions, often in association with gypsum. Rare in NSW, recorded only from a restricted area on a loamy and highly gypseous soil.
Flowers from August to October, mostly from September to November.
In the field, Kippistia suaedifolia forms bushy, dome-shaped aromatic dwarf shrubs, with strongly scented leaves.
Plants are usually common to abundant in populations.

Regional distribution and habitat

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Threats

Excavation (mining) and roadworks.
Habitat clearing and modification (restricted to specialised habitats of saline lakes and depressions associated with gypsum).

Recovery strategies

A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.

Activities to assist this species

Protect populations from excavation and roadworks.
Monitor populations, particularly in times of drought.
No further loss of extant populations.
Survey for new populations

Information sources

Briggs, J.D. and Leigh, J.H. (1996) Rare or Threatened Australian Plants. Revised Edition. (CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne)
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. and Leigh, J.H. (1992) Plants of Western New South Wales. (Inkata Press, Sydney)
Jessop, J.P. (1981) Flora of Central Australia. (Australian Systematic Botany Society, Sydney)
Jessop, J.P. and Toelken, H.R. (eds.) (1986) Flora of South Australia. Part lll. (South Australian Government Printing Division, Adelaide)
Lander, N.S. (1992) Kippistia. In Harden, G.J. (ed.) Flora of New South Wales. Volume 3. New South Wales University Press, Sydney.
Lander, N.S. and Barry, R. (1980) Reinstatement of the genus Kippistia F. Muell. (Asteraceae, Astereae). Nuytsia 3(2): 215-219.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859) Report on the plants collected during Mr Babbage’s expedition into the north-western interior of South Australia in 1858 (3)1: 1-21.
Pressey, R.L., Cohn, J.S. and Porter, J.L. (1990) Vascular plants with restricted distributions in the Western Division of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 112: 213-227
Walsh, N.G. and Entwisle, T.J. (1999) Flora of Victoria; Volume 4, Dicotyledons Cornaceae to Asteraceae. (Inkata Press, Melbourne)
Westbrooke, M.E., Miller, J.D. and Kerr, M.K.C. (1998) The vegetation of the Scotia 1:100 000 map sheet, western New South Wales. Cunninghamia 5(3): 665-684

IBRA Bioregion	IBRA Subregion	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions region

Channel Country	Central Depression	Known	None
Cobar Peneplain	Lachlan Plains	Known	None
Mulga Lands	Paroo-Darling Sands	Predicted	None
Murray Darling Depression	Darling Depression	Known	None
Murray Darling Depression	South Olary Plain	Known	None
NSW South Western Slopes	Lower Slopes	Known	None
Other State	SA	Known	None
Other State	VIC	Known	None
Riverina	Lachlan	Known	None
Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields	Strzelecki Desert	Known	None