Persoonia prostrata R.Br. (1810:163)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Linkia prostrata (R.Br.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 579 (1891)
Possibly a synonym of P. stradbrokensis.
Conservation Status
Missing (Weston, 1995:86 [as 'rare or extinct']; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:9 [as 'Possibly extant']) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Weston et al., 2020; POWO, 2023)
Last record: 31 July 1802 (Weston, 1995:86) or later; pre-1895 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:9); 1901 (Weston et al., 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
"Only known from two specimens collected from same general area; has not been seen since despite some targeted searching in a largely unmodified but poorlycollected area; further searches warranted... Peter Weston spent a day searching in January 1990 at Bool Creek, where Brown landed near Sandy Creek, and collected P.virgata but failed to find P.prostrata; Fraser Island quite well collected, but not the remote Sandy Cape"
(Silcock et al., 2019:SM:9)
Distribution
Sandy Cape, northern tip of Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Department of the Environment. (2015). Persoonia prostrata in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Sat, 7 Feb 2015 18:19:58 +1100.
Hnatiuk, R. J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
POWO. (2023). Persoonia prostrata R.Br. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 December 2023]
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]
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Weston, P. H. (2017). Persoonia prostrata. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Persoonia%20prostrata [Date Accessed: 13 January 2020]
Weston, P., Auld, T. and Douglas, S. (2020). Persoonia prostrata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T113204241A113309835. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T113204241A113309835.en. Accessed on 30 June 2022.
Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261
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