Barbarea australis

Barbarea australis
Conservation status

Critically endangered  (EPBC Act) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Barbarea
Species: B. australis
Binomial name
Barbarea australis
Hook.f.

Barbarea australis is a morphologically and ecologically typical Barbarea species with an unusual distribution: it is an endemic and threatened species from Tasmania.[2] The leaves have a large end-lobe and only few side lobes, much like the leaf-shape of Barbarea stricta and Barbarea orthoceras. With regard to defence chemicals (glucosinolates), it is similar to other members of the genus.[3]

References

  1. "Barbarea australis — Native Wintercress, Riverbed Wintercress". Threatened Species & Ecological Communities. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  2. J. B. Kirkpatrick & Louise Gilfedder (1998). "Conserving weedy natives: two Tasmanian endangered herbs in the Brassicaceae". Australian Journal of Ecology 23 (5): 466–473. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00754.x.
  3. Niels Agerbirk & Karl Erik Olsen (2011). "Isoferuloyl derivatives of five seed glucosinolates in the crucifer genus Barbarea". Phytochemistry 72 (7): 610–623. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2011.01.034. PMID 21354584.