What happens when an 'extinct' plant species is rediscovered?

We a casestudy Atriplex, and found...not much

Despite being 'rediscovered' three times in the last decade Atriplex acutiloba remains listed as extinct. And it isn't alone. Nor is the phenomenon new.

doi.org/10.1111/aec.70101

To get started we are launching a citizen science project on iNaturalist where anyone can contribute images of honeybees or native pollinators visiting native flowers so we can have a baseline for how flower visitation changes before and after varroa mite reaches different parts of the country 4/5

Varroa mite arriving in Australia has been a big worry for agriculture and bee keeping but it will also result in a massive decline in feral honeybee populations. This will affect many native plant species visited by honeybees, our new paper aimed to understand what those effects might be 1/5

Or listen to an audio tour by NSW National Parks and Wildlife
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Pollen viability and stigma receptivity- very fun methods (and new for me) being used as part of an attempted genetic rescue of a sterile, clonal species.

Testing stigma receptivity using Hydrogen peroxide - air bubbles show receptive

Germinated viable pollen and glowing pollen using FDA stain

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How is local government leading community recovery?
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