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List of rare flora of the Mallee region

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The endangered Rhizanthella gardneri (Underground Orchid) occurs in the Mallee region.

This is a list of endangered flora of the Mallee region, a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia. It includes all taxa that occur in the region, and have been classified as "R: Declared Rare Flora - Extant Taxa" under the Department of Environment and Conservation's Declared Rare and Priority Flora List, and are hence gazetted as endangered extant flora under the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950.

There are no taxa classified as "X: Declared Rare Flora - Presumed Extinct Taxa" for the region.

There are 50 endangered taxa:

References

  1. "Wildlife Conservation (Rare Flora) Notice 2006(2)" (PDF). Western Australian Government Gazette. Government of Western Australia. 1 December 2006. pp. 5311–5317. Retrieved 17 January 2007.
  2. "Florabase". Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 31 January 2007.

Further reading

  • Burgman, Mark A. (1985), Rare plants of the Eastern Roe Botanical District, Report 27, Rare and geographically restricted plants of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia: Department of Conservation and Land Management, Government of Western Australia
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