Save a Species Walk

Save a Species Walk is an event in New South Wales in Australia focused on preservation of rare and endangered plants.

Each event includes nominating specific plants. [1]

It involves a walk to raise money for seeds to be prepared and stored at the Australian PlantBank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.[2][3]

Plants by year

The plants identified below are from the Royal Botanic Garden website [4]

2014

• The Needle-leaved Geebung Persoonia acerosa
• The Glandular Pink-bell Tetratheca glandulosa
• Olearia Cordata
• Zieria Involucrata

2015

• Thick leaf Star Hair Astrotricha crassifolia
• Budawangs Cliff Heath Budawangia gnidioides
• White flowered Wax Plant Cynanchum elegan
• Buttercup Doubletail orchid Diuris aequalis
• Sparse Heath Epacris sparsa
• Fletchers Drumsticks Isopogon fletcheri
• Evans Sedge Lepidosperma evansianum
• Woronora Beard Heath Leucopogon exolasius
• Dwarf Mountain Pine Phaerosphera fitzgeraldii
• Velvet Zieria Zieria murphyi
• Black Hooded Sun orchid Thelymitra atronitida
• Villous Mint Bush Prostanthera densa
• Euphrasia bowdeniae
• Grevillea parviflora subsp. supplicans
• Hibbertia stricta subsp. furcatu

2016

• Narrow-leaved Bertya Bertya ingramii
• Four-tailed Grevillea Grevillea quadricauda
• Bordered Guinea Flower Hibbertia marginata
• Dorrigo Waratah Alloxylon pinnatum
• Tall Knotweed Persicaria elatior
• Moonee Quassia Quassia sp. Mooney Creek
• Trailing Monotoca Monotoca rotundifolia
• Creeping Hop-bush Dodonea procumbens
• Suggan Buggan Mallee Eucalyptus saxatilis
• Bega Wattle Acacia georgensis
• Musty Leek Orchid Prasophyllum pallens

Notes

1. https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species
2. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/race-to-save-11-endangered-plants-in-nsw-20160408-go1yxf.html
3. https://www.everydayhero.com.au/events/event_has_finished/19793
4. https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species