This conservation advice was approved by the Minister / Delegate of the Minister on: 26/3/2008

A statement for the purposes of approved conservation advice (s266B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) Approved Conservation Advice for Dryandra mimica (Summer Honeypot)

This Conservation Advice has been developed based on the best available information at the time this conservation advice was approved. Description Dryandra mimica, Family , commonly known as Summer Honeypot, is a prostrate with underground stems and leaves up to 41 cm long. This species produces yellow flowers that have a tuft of long, white hairs at the apex and are grouped into erect heads borne at ground level. Conservation Status Summer Honeypot is listed as endangered. This species is eligible for listing as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth) (EPBC Act) as, prior to the commencement of the EPBC Act, it was listed as endangered under Schedule 1 of the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992 (Cwlth). Summer Honeypot is also listed as rare under the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 () and on the Wildlife Conservation (Rare Flora) Notice 2006(2) (Western Australia). Distribution and Habitat Summer Honeypot is known from three disjunct localities over a 300 km range from Mogumber to the north of Perth, the Darling Range, east of Perth, and the Whicher Range, south-east of Busselton, in south-western Western Australia (Brown et al., 1998; Patrick & Brown, 2001). It occurs within the South West, Swan and Northern Agricultural (Western Australia) Natural Resource Management Regions. Summer Honeypot grows on flat to gentle slopes in grey and white sand in open woodlands. In the Whicher Range this species grows in closed with a attenuata overstorey. Associated vegetation includes Andersonia sp., latifolia, Xanthorrhoea preisii, Leucopogon sp., Melaleuca thymoides and sp. (Kelly et al., 1999; Williams et al., 2001). In the Darling Range and Mogumber, it occurs in mixed low heath with a /B. menziesii open low woodland overstorey. It is associated with species such as cygnorum, Eucalyptus todtiana, Nuytsia floribunda, Jacksonia floribunda, Xanthorrhoea preisii, , conchifolia and (Kelly et al., 1999). There are no translocated populations (DEC, 2007). The total population size for this species is estimated to be over 7300 mature . However, the plants occur in large clumps which may be clones, so estimates of numbers are unreliable at the individual level (DEC, 2007). The distribution of this species is not known to overlap with any EPBC Act-listed threatened ecological communities. Threats The main identified threat to Summer Honeypot is land clearing for agriculture and urban development (Kelly et al., 1999). The main potential threats to the species include further clearing for urban development (Leigh & Briggs, 1992); dieback caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi (although some tolerance is present) (Kelly et al., 1999); and frequent fire, which may encourage weed invasion and subsequent degradation of habitat.

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Research Priorities Research priorities that would inform future regional and local priority actions include: • More precisely assess population size, distribution, ecological requirements and the relative impacts of threatening processes. • Design and implement a monitoring program. • Determine Summer Honeypot’s susceptibility to dieback caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi. Regional and Local Priority Actions The following regional and local priority recovery and threat abatement actions can be done to support the recovery of Summer Honeypot. Habitat Loss, Disturbance and Modification • Monitor known populations to identify key threats. • Monitor the progress of recovery, including the effectiveness of management actions and the need to adapt them if necessary. • Identify populations of high conservation priority. • Manage threats to areas of vegetation that contain populations/occurrences/remnants of Summer Honeypot. • Ensure road widening and maintenance activities (or other infrastructure or development activities as appropriate) in areas where the species occurs do not adversely impact on known populations. • Control access routes to suitably constrain public access to known sites on public land. • Suitably control and manage access on private land. • Undertake survey work in suitable habitat and potential habitat to locate any additional populations/occurrences/remnants. • Minimise adverse impacts from land use at known sites. • Investigate formal conservation arrangements such as the use of covenants, conservation agreements or inclusion in reserve tenure. Fire • Develop and implement a suitable fire management strategy for Summer Honeypot. • Identify appropriate intensity and interval of fire to promote seed . • Provide maps of known occurrences to local and state rural fire services and seek inclusion of mitigative measures in bush fire risk management plans, risk register and/or operation maps. Diseases, Fungi and Parasites • Develop and implement suitable hygiene protocols to protect against outbreaks of dieback caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi. Conservation Information • Raise awareness of Summer Honeypot within the local community, including landowners and managers, and local authorities. Establishing Additional Populations • Undertake appropriate seed collection and storage. • Undertake seed germination and/or vegetative propagation trials to determine the requirements for successful establishment. • Implement national translocation protocols (Vallee et al, 2004) if establishing additional populations is considered necessary and feasible.

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This list does not necessarily encompass all actions that may be of benefit to Summer Honeypot, but highlights those that are considered to be of highest priority at the time of preparing the conservation advice. Existing Plans/Management Prescriptions that are Relevant to the Species • Western Australia Wildlife Program No. 33: Declared rare and poorly known flora in the Central Forest Region (Williams et al., 2001).

Information Sources: Brown, A, Thomson-Dans, C & Marchant N (eds) 1998, Western Australia's threatened flora, Department of Conservation and Land Management, pp.1-220. Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) 2007, Records held in DEC's Declared Flora Database and rare flora files, Department of Environment and Conservation, Perth, Western Australia. George, AS 1984 ‘Dryandra mimica, a new species of Proteaceae from south-west Western Australia’ Nuytsia, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 49-51. George, AS 1999, ‘Dryandra’. , Australian Biological Resources Study/CSIRO Publishing, vol. 17B, pp. 251-363. Kelly, A, Monks, L, Hickman, E & Coates, D 1999, Conservation biology and management of three endangered Dryandra species: Dryandra ionthocarpa, D. mimica and D. montana, Department of Conservation and Management, Western Australia. Leigh,JH & Briggs, JD (eds) 1992, Threatened Australian Plants: Overview and Case Studies, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. Patrick, SJ & Brown, AP 2001, Declared rare and poorly known flora in the Moora District, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Perth, Western Australia. Vallee, L, Hogbin, T, Monks, L, Makinson, B, Matthes, M and Rossetto, M 2004, Guidelines for the Translocation of Threatened Plants in Australia - Second Edition, Australian Network for Conservation, Canberra. Williams, K, Horan, A, Wood, S & Webb, A 2001, Declared rare and poorly known flora in the Central Forest Region, Western Australian Wildlife Management Program No. 33, Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management.

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