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Brachyscias
Conservation status
	; Critically endangered (EPBC Act)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Genus:	Brachyscias; J.M.Hart & Henwood
Species:	B. verecundus
Binomial name
	Brachyscias verecundus; J.M.Hart & Henwood

Brachyscias is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. Its only species is Brachyscias verecundus (common name - ironstone brachyscias^[1]), described in 1999, from Southwest Australia.^[2]

Conservation status

It is listed as critically endangered under the Australian government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,^[1] due to there being just one confirmed population and extreme fluctuations in the number of mature individuals, together with a continuing decline in the habitat quality. Threats include "firebreak maintenance activities, lack of appropriate disturbance, inappropriate fire regimes, mineral exploration, hydrological changes, weed invasion and rabbits".^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Department of the Environment (2020). "Species Profile and Threats Database: Brachyscias verecundus — Ironstone Brachyscias". www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Canberra: Department of the Environment. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
^ Hart, J.M.; Henwood, M.J. (1999). "Brachyscias (Apiaceae): a new genus from south-west Western Australia". Australian Systematic Botany. 12 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1071/SB98002.
^ Luu, Robyn; English, Val (2004). "INTERIM RECOVERY PLAN NO. 174 IRONSTONE BRACHYSCIAS (BRACHYSCIAS VERECUNDUS) INTERIM RECOVERY PLAN 2004-2009" (PDF). Wanneroo: Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australian Threatened Species and Communities Unit. Retrieved 19 April 2020.

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[sprat-1] Department of the Environment (2020). "Species Profile and Threats Database: Brachyscias verecundus — Ironstone Brachyscias". www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Canberra: Department of the Environment. Retrieved 19 April 2020.

[2] Hart, J.M.; Henwood, M.J. (1999). "Brachyscias (Apiaceae): a new genus from south-west Western Australia". Australian Systematic Botany. 12 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1071/SB98002.

[recovery-3] Luu, Robyn; English, Val (2004). "INTERIM RECOVERY PLAN NO. 174 IRONSTONE BRACHYSCIAS (BRACHYSCIAS VERECUNDUS) INTERIM RECOVERY PLAN 2004-2009" (PDF). Wanneroo: Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australian Threatened Species and Communities Unit. Retrieved 19 April 2020.

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