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词条 Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita
释义

  1. Description

  2. Distribution and habitat

  3. Conservation

  4. References

  5. External links

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Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita (syn. Duma horrida subsp. abdita[2]). commonly known as remote thorny lignum, is a critically endangered shrub endemic to Western Australia.

Description

It is an upright, spreading, leafless shrub, that grows to a height of from 60 to 120 centimetres. It has bright, light yellow clusters of flowers.

Distribution and habitat

Muehlenbckia horrida subsp. abdita is known only from two populations within the Lake Bryde-East Lake Bryde wetland, in the Western Mallee subregion of the Mallee region in the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.

It grows in waterlogged silt and sand, on the beds of Lake Bryde and East Lake Bryde. It depends for its survival upon a regular cycle of freshwater flooding followed by drying of the lake bed.

Conservation

Populations of M. h. subsp. abdita have declined severely in the last thirty years, mainly because of increasing salinity. Salinity loads in the Lakes were measured at around 160 tonnes in 1985, but had increased to around 1200 tonnes in 2005. This increase is attributable to a rising water table caused by widespread clearing for agriculture. Other threats include interruption of the flooding/drying regime because of altered hydrology; and recreational activities such as water skiing. It is estimated that there are about 2000 plants left. There was previously a third population, but these were all dead in 2002, and the population is thought to be unrecoverable.[3]

It is listed as "critically endangered" under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,[4] and as "Rare" under Western Australia's Wildlife Conservation Act 1950.[5] The whole lake bed ecosystem has been classified as a critically endangered threatened ecological community under the name Bryde.[6]

References

1. ^{{APNI|name=Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita|id=222366}}
2. ^https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/44466
3. ^{{Cite web | title = Advice to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee (the Committee) on Amendments to the list of Threatened Species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) | url = http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/muehlenbeckia-horrida-abdita-listing.pdf | accessdate = 2007-02-23}}
4. ^{{Cite web | title = Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita: Remote Thorny Lignum | url = http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=65937 | work = Species Profile and Threats Database | publisher = Department of the Environment and Heritage | accessdate = 2007-02-23}}
5. ^{{FloraBase | name = Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita | f = 103 | id=17050}}
6. ^{{Cite web | title = List of Threatened Ecological Communities (endorsed January 2004) | url = http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,404/Itemid,1208/ | accessdate = 2007-02-23}}

External links

  • {{FloraBase}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q6931940}}

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