National recovery plan for Twenty-five threatened orchid taxa of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales 2003 - 2007

Coates, F., Jeanes, J. and Pritchard, A.
Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne, 2002

Appendix 3

Conservation status:: EPBC Act 1999: Not listed; IUCN (2000): X; NRE (2000): X

Distribution:: Endemic to Victoria - Victorian Alps Bioregion (confined to the Mt Buffalo Plateau). Specific population localities are unknown. No precise records exist to indicate its former distribution, but likely to have been a short-range endemic.

Abundance:

Extinct. Former abundance is unknown, but likely to have been naturally rare with extremely small population size.

Habitat: Habitat is unknown.

Reservation status:

Occurred at Mt Buffalo National Park.

Management:

Parks Victoria (Central Victoria Region, Puckapunyal).

Current and potential threats:

Unknown.

Recovery actions undertaken:

Issues specific to recovery:

The common and widespread taxon, referred to in most of the literature as Prasophyllum suttonii, was recently described as P. alpestre D.L. Jones (Jones 1998).
Searches have failed to relocate the population, and re-discovery is highly unlikely.

Consultation:

Parks Victoria (Central Victoria Region, Wodonga).

Action	Mt Buffalo
1. Determine current conservation status
1.1 Clarify taxonomy	Completed
1.2 Acquire baseline population data	N/A
Responsibility	DSE-BNR, ANOS

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