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Androcalva perkinsiana
Androcalva perkinsiana, commonly known as headland commersonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of central eastern Queensland. It is a small, erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, oblong or lance-shaped leaves with 5 to 11 pairs of small serrations on the edges, and groups of 3 to 4 pale purple flowers.
Headland commersonia is only known from a single population on a coastal headland in Byfield Conservation Park where it grows in tussock grassland at Stockyard Point, Queensland. A road and a carpark intersects the known occurrence of this species. Threats to this species include trampling by vehicles or foot traffic, too few fires causing smothering by invasive species, too many fires causing genetic diversity loss, a single pathogen causing the extinction of the species, introduction of an invasive species due to increased visitation, and climate change. The vegetation community which this species grows in is classified as "of concern" under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act 1999. The population of this species is estimated to be fewer than 250 mature individuals. The entire population has a high likelihood either be genetically identical through vegetative reproduction, or consist of a handful of individuals with distinct genetic variations. If the former is true an introduction of a plant pathogen has the potential to cause determent to the species population.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androcalva perkinsiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
