Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Stackhousia clementii
Profile last updated:
29 Jun 2022
Description
Dense forb, 18-50 cm high, with slender, hairless stems which are much-branched in upper part. Leaves usually scale-like, mostly 5-15 mm long. Flowers pale green, yellow or dark brown, borne in clusters of 1-3 in cylindrical spikes, the petals loosely joined into a slender tube 2.4-3.2 mm long, with 5 lobes at the top.
Distribution
The only known NSW record is from Sturt National Park adjacent to Frome Swamp. It is a species of disjunct range across arid Australia, also occurring in WA, NT, SA and Qld.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows in sand to cracking clay and is frequently associated with limestone flats or ridges. Recorded in open woodland and hummock grassland on ephemeral swamp margins, plains and ridges, and sometimes in saline soil.
- Flowering time not recorded, however a fruiting specimen was collected in August.
- Disturbance regimes are not known but other species such as Stackhousia monogyna are said to recover quickly after fire.
- Recorded as infrequent in one population in WA.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Grazing by stock and native herbivores (other Stackhousia species are eaten by stock at times).
- Habitat depletion.
- Very little ecological information available.
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 existing populations from stock and other grazing animals.
- No further loss of extant populations.
- Investigate regeneration including seed-set, germination and seedling survival.
- Survey.
Information sources
- Barker, W.R. (1984) Stackhousiaceae. 1. Stackhousia. Flora of Australia 22: 186-197, p. 194.
- BRI Herbarium Records. () Databased specimen records from the Queensland Herbarium (Brisbane Botanic Gardens: Toowong).
- Briggs, J.D. and Leigh, J.H. (1996) Rare or Threatened Australian Plants. Revised Edition. (CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne)
- CANB Herbarium Records. () Databased specimen records from the Canberra Botanic Gardens and Australian National Botanic Gardens (CSIRO and Australian National Botanic Gardens: Canberra).
- Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. and Leigh, J.H. (1992) Plants of Western New South Wales. (Inkata Press, Sydney)
- Domin, K. (1927) Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica Heft 89: 343.
- Jessop, J.P. (1981) Flora of Central Australia. (Australian Systematic Botany Society, Sydney)
- MEL Herbarium Records. () Databased specimen records from the National Herbarium of Victoria (Royal Botanic Gardens: Melbourne).
- 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
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