A population of 700 Blandfordia cunninghamii Lindl. (family Blandfordiaceae) plants in the Blue Mountains, 100 km west of Sydney, New South Wales was monitored over a period of seven years, during which a part of the population area was burnt in a Hazard Reduction Burn (HRB). The survey measured flowering of Blandfordia cunninghamii in both the burnt and unburnt areas. In part of the unburnt area flowering (in December) was strongly correlated with previous September rainfall, but in another unburnt area there was no flowering at all over the seven years. An enhanced flowering response after fire was found in the burnt area and the diminution of this enhanced response in subsequent years was found to be logarithmic (taking into account potential rainfall effects). No recruitment of juvenile plants after fire was observed. 87% of seeds of Blandfordia cunninghamii were found to be germinable. Slow juvenile growth of Blandfordia cunninghamii in the field was measured over seven years. Seed was collected for two major seedbanks, the NSW Plantbank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annan and the Millennium Seedbank at Kew in the United Kingdom.
Epacris browniae (Ericaceae) is described from the Blue Mountains, 100 km west of Sydney, New South Wales. Its habitat is dry, rocky, montane heath, scrub and escarpment complex, all on Narrabeen sandstone. It is an erect, woody, virgate shrub with glabrous or almost glabrous branchlets, non-pungent trullate leaves, leaf petioles that separate from a crescentic scar at the junction with the stem, flowers that extend well down the branchlets, opening basipetally, a corolla that is shorter than the sepals and lobes longer than the corolla tube. The flowering period is late October through to early December. The habitat, known geographic distribution and conservation status are considered.
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