Scrub Turpentine, Brown Malletwood at Gleniffer, NSW
Identification history
| Rhodamnia rubescens | 19 Jan 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Rhodamnia argentea | 19 Jan 2024 | NJ |
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Confirmed as R. rubescens from local ecologists/botanist. >100 seedlings, though likely many being root suckers from large adult now deceased.
5 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
I think it has to be R.rubescens, following the key it seems that R.argentea should have a silvery white lower leaf surface which this plant doesn't. It does make sense looking at the latin.
NJ
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
Thanks Tapirlord. I see what your saying about the silvery underside of R. argentea.
If it is rubescens it is very significant, due to the number and the very large mature specimen that has been cut down.
I'll see if I can get someone to have a second look with me.
If it is rubescens it is very significant, due to the number and the very large mature specimen that has been cut down.
I'll see if I can get someone to have a second look with me.
Tapirlord
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
That's a good point actually, I forget that R.rubescens is critically endangered. I'll leave the confirmation for now, but yes another look would be good if possible
NJ
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
Yeah that's what I thought. I don't want to raise it if it could possibly be something else. But in my 'Rainforests plants of Australia' key(Harden, Nicholson et al.,) there are only those 2 Rhodamnia species in this region so it seems likely it's rubescens.
Thanks for your comments
Thanks for your comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
No worries, good luck pursuing it if these plants do turn out to be R.rubescens. A great shame the stand was clear felled in the first place.
Location information
- Places Gleniffer, NSW
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 18 Jan 2024 07:35 PM Recorded on
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Species information
- Rhodamnia rubescens Scientific name
- Scrub Turpentine, Brown Malletwood Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 421m Recorded at altitude
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