Giant Andersonia (Andersonia axilliflora) Interim Recovery Plan 2003-2008
Interim Recovery Plan No. 147
Rebecca Evans, Sarah Barrett, Gillian Stack and Andrew Brown
Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA, 2003
4. Term of plan
This Interim Recovery Plan will operate from August 2003 to July 2008 but will remain in force until withdrawn or replaced. If the taxon is still ranked Critically Endangered after five years, the need to rewrite this IRP or to replace it with a full Recovery Plan will be determined.
5. Acknowledgements
The following people have provided assistance and advice in the preparation of this Interim Recovery Plan:
Anne Cochrane Manager, DCLM's Threatened Flora Seed Centre
Amanda Shade Horticulturalist, Botanic Garden and Parks Authority
Brian Shearer Phosphite Program Research Scientist, DCLM's Science Division
Thanks also to the staff of the W.A. Herbarium for providing access to Herbarium databases and specimen information, and DCLM's Wildlife Branch for assistance.
6. References
Barrett, S. (1999). Eastern Stirling Range Montane Heath and Thicket Community, Interim Recovery Plan, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia, unpublished report.
Barrett, S. (1998). Assessments of the plant sensitivity to phosphonate and the effectiveness of applications on native communities in the south coast region. Pp. 33-45 in ‘Control of Phytophthora and Diplodina Canker in Western Australia’. Final Report to the Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, unpublished.
Barrett, S. (1996). A Biological Survey of the Mountains in Southern Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia, unpublished report.
Brown, A., Thomson-Dans, C. and Marchant, N. (Eds). (1998). Western Australia's Threatened Flora. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
Druce, G.C. (1917). Nomenclatorial notes: chiefly African and Australian, Reprinted from: Report of the Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles (1916, suppl., 2) 604 (1917), Fig. 21, p. 122.
Herford, I. (1997) Stirling Range and Porongurup National Parks Draft Management Plan. Department of Conservation and Land Management for The National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority, Western Australia.
Keighery, G.J. (1988). Dieback briefing paper. I, Epacridaceae. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
Keighery, G.J. (1996). Phytogeography, biology and conservation of Western Australian Epacridaceae, Annuls of Botany, 77: 347-355.
Menet, K.A., Nielssen, G.M., and Dixon, K.W. (1994). Seed bank patterns in Restionaceae and Epacridaceae after wildfire in kwongan in southwestern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science, 5: 5-12.
Stack, G. and Brown, A. (2002). Small-flowered Snottygobble (Persoonia micranthera) Interim Recovery Plan. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia, in press.
DCLM (1995) Policy Statement No. 29 Translocation of Threatened Flora and Fauna. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
DCLM (1994) Policy Statement No. 50 Setting Priorities for the Conservation of Western Australia's Threatened Flora and Fauna. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
DCLM (1992) Policy Statement No. 44 Wildlife Management Programs. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
DCLM (1998) Western Australian Herbarium FloraBase - Information on the Western Australian Flora. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia. http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/science/
World Conservation Union (2000) IUCN red list categories prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, as approved by the 51st meeting of the IUCN Council. Gland, Switzerland.
7. Taxonomic description
Druce (1917)
Andersonia axilliflora is a robust shrub, often exceeding 2 m in height. Leaves 20 -35 mm long, 8 - 15 mm wide at base, increasing in size acropetally to the bracts, lanceolate, usually erect and concave, sometimes undulate and subspirally twisted, grooved, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal often ±oblong, often containing more than 30 flowers flattened in the axils of their bracts, terminating the shoots, with the apex withering after anthesis; bracts lanceolate and concave, usually erect often twice as long as the subtended flower; bracteoles often as long as sepals, carinate, acuminate, considerably flattened laterally. Sepals c. 12 mm long in the larger flowers, lanceolate -acuminate, those opposite the bracteoles usually complicate, usually glabrous, creamy white. Corolla somewhat shorter than calyx; lodes c. twice as long as tube, glabrous, usually acuminate, erect at the time of anther dehiscence; tube pubescent above the middle, often sparingly so. Stamens c. 3/4 as long as corolla, far exceeding tube, not becoming exserted by filament elongation, filaments glabrous, stout, flattened; anthers linear, c. 6 mm long, often about twice as long as filaments, attached at base, with the prominent connective continuing to the apex; pollen in tetrads. Ovary c. 2 mm high; loculi rather rounded, puberulent above; hypogynous scales rather less than 1/2 as long as ovary, often ± united; style cylindrical, not becoming exserted beyond the calyx, scabridulous; stigma truncate or slightly clavate.
Addendum
Giant Andersonia (Andersonia axilliflora) Interim Recovery Plan 2003-2008
In adopting this plan under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), the Minister for the Environment and Heritage has approved the following modifications.
Critical Habitat
The plan identifies a broad area as critical habitat, including buffer zones of a set distance around known populations. The Threatened Species Scientific Committee does not necessarily believe that such an area qualifies as habitat critical to the survival of the species, as defined in the EPBC Act.
Recovery Criteria
For the purposes of reviewing this recovery plan under the EPBC Act, the Recovery Criteria are amended to read as follows:
Criteria for success: The number of individuals within populations and/or the number of populations have increased by 10% or more over the period of the plan's adoption under the EPBC Act.
Criteria for failure: The number of individuals within populations and/or the number of populations have decreased by 10% or more over the period of the plan's adoption under the EPBC Act.
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