Australasian Plant Conservation Bulletin of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation Inc Volume 28 Number 1 June – August 2019 Theme: Translocation of threatened plants – Part 4 ANPC INC. MISSION STATEMENT: To promote and improve plant conservation ANPC National Office Australasian Plant Conservation Contributing to GPO Box 1777 Editor Australasian Plant Conservation Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Heidi Zimmer Australasian Plant Conservation is a forum for T (02) 6250 9509 | F (02) 6250 9599 Associate Editors information exchange for all those involved in E [email protected] Nathan Emery and Selga Harrington plant conservation: please use it to share your work with others. Articles, information snippets, W www.anpc.asn.au Editorial Team details of new publications or research and diary Jo Lynch, Lucy Commander, Kate Brown, ANPC Staff dates are welcome. 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This issue From the editor by Heidi Zimmer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................2 Collections management – documenting conservation collections using a genotype collecting method by The South East NSW Bioregion Working Group, Martin Henery, Tom North, Lydia Guja and Caroline Chong ................................3 Threatened plant translocation case studies: Grevillea wilkinsonii (Tumut Grevillea), Proteaceae by John Briggs ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Wet and Dry subtropical Coastal Heath translocation by Alison Shapcott ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Androcalva perlaria (Pearl‑like Androcalva) Malvaceae by Shane Turner, Carole Elliott, Eric Bunn ................................................................................................................................................................15 Astelia australiana (Tall Astelia) Asteliaceae by Linda Parker and Craig R. Nitschke ......................................................................................................................................................................18 Macadamia jansenii (Bulburin nut), Proteaceae by Alison Shapcott ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................21 Posidonia australis (Strapweed), Posidoniaceae ..................................................................................................................................................... by Giulia Ferretto, Tim Glasby, Graham Housefield, Alistair Poore, John Statton, Elizabeth Sinclair, Gary Kendrick, Adriana Vergés ....................................................................................................................................................................................24 Translocation ‘success’ is all about detection: experiences with two threatened orchids from the Hunter Valley of NSW by Stephen Bell ................................................................................................................................................................................................................27 Regular features News from the ASBP ...................................................................................................................................................................................................32 ANPC member profile ..................................................................................................................................................................................................34 Book reviews ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................35 Workshop reports .........................................................................................................................................................................................................37 News ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Research round up ........................................................................................................................................................................................................47 ANPC Corporate Members ........................................................................................................................................................................................49 Australasian Plant Conservation | Vol 28 No 1 June – August 2019 1 From the editor HEIDI ZIMMER Hello and welcome to the fourth issue of Australasian event, as well as to replace a population which had Plant Conservation (APC) focussing on translocation become locally extinct. Initial monitoring results show of threatened plants. The diversity of plants and high rates of survival (>86%) after one year. Staying with conservation challenges we’ve seen in the translocation rainforest, but moving to Queensland, the next case study case studies published so far has been remarkable, is on Macadamia jansenii, a species with a wild population and this issue is no different. We begin with an article of only 60 plants. Alison Shapcott describes a program describing a genotype collecting method which helps of translocation which aimed to encapsulate the genetic users keep track of their ex situ collections, in particular diversity of the Macadamia jansenii wild population, which individuals come from which parent plants. which has important learnings about juvenile plant We then jump into translocation case studies with John mortality rates and hardiness. Briggs’ article on Grevillea wilkinsonii. John’s article In a first for translocation case studies in APC, we tracks over 20 years of conservation management of dive underwater for translocation of Posidonia G. wilkinsonii in southeast New South Wales, during australis, a species of seagrass. Guilida Ferretto et al. which, through translocation and natural recruitment, the describe a program (Operation Posidinia) of planting population has grown from 140 to more than 1500 plants. beach‑collected fragments of P. australis in boat This story highlights the role of good communication and mooring scars – from which the species had been landholder relationships, and challenging assumptions extirpated. Operation Posidonia appears to have been about what is suitable habitat. Next we move to an article very successful so far, with high survival rates and great by