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New Myrtle Rust Recovery Action Coordinator

New Myrtle Rust Recovery Action Coordinator

Pip Walsh joined ANPC late last year as the Myrtle Rust Recovery Action Coordinator. Pip has over 30 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector working in senior roles at WWF, Greening Australia and Bush Heritage. Since 2016 Pip has specialised in working with project teams to develop, implement and improve conservation and community projects using the Open Standards for Conservation.

Pip will head our new project funded by the Australian Government under the Saving Native Species program, which will coordinate recovery actions over 18 months for four Critically Endangered plants at risk of near-term extinction or serious decline due to the exotic fungal disease Myrtle Rust: Native Guava (Rhodomyrtus psidioides); Angle-stemmed Myrtle (Gossia gonoclada); Scrub Turpentine (Rhodamnia rubescens) and Smooth Scrub Turpentine (Rhodamnia maideniana). Click here to learn more about the project.

In her spare time Pip is a keen bushwalker, still potters around a soccer field and gets her hands dirty with Narrowneck Bushcare group.

This project is supported by funding from the Australian Government.

New orchid species described through ANPC-supported research

New orchid species described through ANPC-supported research

New CSIRO research published in Phytotaxa investigating the Adelopetalum argyropus species complex has described 2 new species of orchid: A. howense and A. continentale. The ANPC supported fieldwork for the project in northeast NSW through San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance funding, resulting in the description of Adelopetalum continentale, as well as assessing the impact on the species following the 2019/20 fires. This was undertaken as part of our “Prevent rare plant extinction and reduce impacts of future fires” project.

CSIRO has produced a blog post describing the research, which was also conducted on Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, with A. howense and A. argyropus described on those 2 islands respectively.

The full article describes the history of the taxonomy, as well as each of the species and their extent. You can read it over at: https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.678.1.9

Image: Adelopetalum continentale – Credit: Jeremy Bruhl