Purplish Wallaby-grass,
Short-awn Wallaby-grass
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Regional Species Conservation Assessments per IBRA subregion.
Least concern
Near threatened
Rare
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically endangered
Extinct
Data deficient
Adelaide
Arkaroola
Ceduna
Coober Pedy
Hawker
Innamincka
Marla
Marree
Mount Gambier
Oodnadatta
Renmark
Wudinna
Keith
Yunta
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Fleurieu (KAN02) | Kanmantoo | Data Deficient [query records; seen at Meadows, could occur at Finniss] |
Mount Lofty Ranges (FLB01) | Flinders Lofty Block | Rare (IUCN: RA d(ii)) (Probable Decline) [likes boggy creeklines; climate sensitive; habitat degraded] |
Wimmera (MDD05) | Murray Darling Depression | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU B2ab(i,ii,iii); D2) (Probable Decline) |
Botanical art
Kath Alcock paintings: 4
Prior names
Austrodanthonia tenuior
Plinthanthesis tenuior
Notodanthonia tenuior
Notodanthonia purpurascens
Danthonia purpurascens
Danthonia semiannularis var. browniana
Danthonia tenuior, partly
Common names
Purplish Wallaby-grass
Short-awn Wallaby-grass
Distribution and status
Herbarium regions: Flinders Ranges, Eastern, Northern Lofty, Southern Lofty, South Eastern, Green Adelaide
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)
Location | No. of seeds (weight grams) | Number of plants | Date collected | Collection number Collection location | Date stored | % Viability | Storage temperature | BGA MSB | 5,400 (5.26 g) 5,400 (5.26 g) | 100+ | 25-Jan-2004 | SMK60 Southern Lofty | 14-Aug-2006 | 70% | +5°C, -18°C |
Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.
Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.
Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.
% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.