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Barbarea australis Hook.f. (1852:14)

Riverbed wintercress

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1835 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12); 1830's (February 1837 or later)?

Rediscovered in 1982 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:12)

 

Distribution

Tasmania, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hooker, J. D. (1859). Flora Tasmaniae (Botany of the Antarctic voyage: volume 3). Lovell Reeve, London.

 

Other references:

Curtis, W. M. (1956). The Student’s Flora of Tasmania Part 1. Gymnospermae Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. Hobart: Government Printer.

de Salas, M. F. and Baker, M. L. (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Hewson, H. J. (1982). Brassicaceae. In Flora of Australia Vol 8 Lecythidales to Batales (A.S. George, editor). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Kirkpatrick, J. B. and Gilfedder, L. (1998). Conserving weedy natives: two Tasmanian endangered herbs in the Brassicaceae. Australian Journal of Ecology 23: 466-473.

Rodway, L. (1903). The Tasmanian Flora. Hobart: Government Printer.

Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]

Wapstra, Mark et al. (2006). Finding a botanical Lazarus: tales of Tasmanian plant species 'risen from the dead'. The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 61-85.

 

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