Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Solanum celatum
Gazetted date:
07 Nov 2003
Profile last updated:
24 Jan 2024
Description
A recently described shrub 1 - 2.5 m high, with grey to white branches that are densely covered with hairs and sparsely armed with prickles. Flowers are purple and have contrasting orange stamens. Leaves are elliptical to lanceolate, without lobes, 4.6 - 12.5 cm long, 1.5 - 3.5 cm wide. Upper leaf surface grey-green and lower leaf surface yellowish-white. Fruit is a green smooth globular berry, 13 - 16 mm diameter.
Distribution
Restricted to an area from Wollongong to just south of Nowra, and west to Bungonia. Majority of records are prior to 1960 and the majority of populations are likely to have been lost to clearing.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows in rainforest clearings, or in wet sclerophyll forests.
- Flowers August to October and produces fruit December to January.
- Fire sensitive obligate seeder, with adults plants killed by fire and recruitment occurring from a soil stored seed bank.
- Normally recorded in disturbed margins and clearings
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Given extremely small population size and restricted distribution, threatened by local extinction due to environmental and demographic uncertainty.
- Habitat loss due to clearing for urban development.
- Habitat degradation, primarily by invasion of Lantana camara.
- Inappropriate fire regimes, particularly frequent fire.
- Trampling and destruction from recreational activities.
- Accidental disturbance during road and track maintenance activities.
- Little is known about the species' area of occupancy.
- Grazing by pest animals, most notably goats.
- Grazing, browsing or trampling by domestic stock causing physical damage to plants.
- Easement maintenance activities causing physical damage to plants.
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
3 priority actions
to help recover the Solanum celatum in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Undertake appropriate weed control activities when necessary.
- Protect areas of known and potential habitat from clearing and further fragmentation.
- Survey of known populations, and potential habitat, to provide greater insight into the current status of the species, threats to its persistence and management actions required.
Information sources
- Bean, A.R. (2001) A revision of Solanum brownii Dunal (Solanaceae) and its allies. Telopea 9, 639-661.
- NSW Scientific Committee (2003) Solanum celatum (a shrub) - Endangered species determination - final. DEC (NSW), Sydney.
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