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Gingidia rupicola - profile

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Scientific name: Gingidia rupicola
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Gazetted date: 26 May 2017
Profile last updated: 21 Nov 2018

Description

A small, erect herb to 50cm high. Leaves are up to 32cm long, with 3-9 small oval leaflets that have slightly serrated edges, the terminal leaflet may be three lobed. Leaves are strongly aromatic. It has a ray of 6-11 stems (peduncles) each terminating in a smaller ray of 10-14 small white flowers . The fruit is small and oval, around 6-7mm long.

Distribution

Endemic to NSW and known from only two locations within New England National Park.  Total population size is estimated to be approximately 50 individuals.

Habitat and ecology

  • Occurs in Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) Woodland and at the edge of Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus moorei) forest.
  • Grows in humic soil in pockets in ledges or cracks in basalt or trachyte rocks, mostly on cliff faces at altitudes of 1400–1750 m above sea level .
  • Flowers from November until December.
  • Little is know of the ecology of this species.
  • The plants occurring within New England National Park have recently been formally named and described as a new species, Gingidia rupicola, while Gingidia montana is now recognised as endemic to New Zealand.
  • Male plants functionally bisexual (to varying degrees) whereas females are uniformly unisexual, males produce more flowers than females but similar amounts of seed.

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IBRA Bioregion IBRA Subregion Known or predicted Geographic restrictions region
New England TablelandsEbor Basalts Predicted Above 1100 m altitude and within 10 km of Point Lookout
NSW North CoastChaelundi Known None
NSW North CoastCoffs Coast and Escarpment Known Above 1100 m altitude and within 10 km of Point Lookout