RARE & ENDANGERED PLANTS

Briggs, J.D. & J.H. Leigh Rare or threatened Australian plants. Special Publicn 14, Austr. Nat. Parks & Wildlife Service, Canberra, 1988. [Now a little dated, but gives listing of most species with their conservation codes, both national and state by state. This is more of a scientific list, and includes species not gazetted (cf. the ANZECC list in ANCA publication of 1993 below).]

Hopper, S., S. van Leeuwen, A.P. Brown, & S.J. Patrick Western Australia's endangered flora. WA Dept Conservation & Land Mgt, 1990. (140 pp.) [Illustrations, mostly in colour, of endangered WA plants, with short descriptions, and schedule listings of R&E plants. Also outlines conservation legislation, and has a series of profiles on plants that are presumed extinct.]

Leach, G.J. et al. Northern Territory plants of conservation significance. N.T. Conservation Commission Bot. Bull. No 13, 1992. (65 pp.) [Useful listings of the rare or threatened plants of the Territory (both vascular and non-vascular, with their conservation codes, plus indications of distribution outside the N.T. Also lists N.T. Reserves, and endemic vascular plants of the N.T. and of the Central Australian ranges.]

Leigh, J., Boden, R. & J. Briggs Extinct and endangered plants of Australia. Macmillan, 1984. [Non-comprehensive; detailed treatments of a selection of about 280 R&E plants from various families. Some photographs and line drawings.]

Leigh, J.H. & J.D. Briggs (eds). Threatened Australian plants - overview and case studies. Austr. Nat. Parks & Wildlife Service, 1992. (120 pp.) [Contains a brief outline of conservation codes, useful statistics on rare, threatened, and extinct species, and full-page illustrated profiles of a handful of endangered species from each state.]

Australian Nature Conservation Agency. Threatened Australian flora. ANZECC June 1993. (31 pp.) [Up to date list of the threatened plants listed, with their particular conservation status. Includes only gazetted (legally recognised) taxa; is thus a legal listing, not a scientific one, with many R&E taxa excluded that have not yet been gazetted.]