WA Department of Parks and Wildlife, Threatened Flora Seed Centre

Records from the specimens of the WA DPaW Threatened Flora Seed Centre.

The Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife's Threatened Flora Seed Centre was established in 1992 to safeguard genetically representative seed collections of the State's conservation-listed flora. This insurance policy complements other strategies designed to protect Western Australia's floral diversity, including use of these seeds in recovery actions such as threatened species reintroduction. The Centre is principally involved in seed collection and long-term storage, including research into germination biology, and seed quality, seed longevity and seed ecology.

The Centre is located in the department's Science Division, Flora Conservation and Herbarium Program in Perth which is responsible for a wide range of complementary plant conservation research including:

- Plant reintroduction

- Genetic studies into seed sourcing, sampling and the viability of plant populations

- Threat susceptibility studies, including disease, salinity and climate change

- Taxonomy

Since 1992 the Centre has successfully stored seeds from an estimated 3638 collections. These collections comprise 77 per cent of Australia's nationally threatened species (EPBC Act), 78 per cent of WA's Declared Rare Flora and 22 per cent of WA's Priority flora, including seed from a wide range of species associated with Threatened Ecological Communities.

西澳公园与野生动物部受威胁植物种子中心（Threatened Flora Seed Centre, WA DPaW）馆藏标本记录。

西澳公园与野生动物部（Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife, WA DPaW）的受威胁植物种子中心成立于1992年，旨在保育本州纳入保护名录的植物类群的具有遗传代表性的种子馆藏。这一保育策略作为“活体保险”，与其他旨在保护西澳植物多样性的举措相辅相成，例如将这些种子应用于受威胁物种再引入等物种恢复行动中。该中心主要开展种子采集与长期保藏工作，同时围绕种子萌发生物学、种子质量、种子寿命及种子生态学开展相关研究。

该中心坐落于珀斯的部门科学分部旗下的植物保育与标本馆项目组（Flora Conservation and Herbarium Program），该项目组负责多项互补性植物保育研究，涵盖：
- 植物再引入
- 针对种子源选择、取样策略及植物种群活力的遗传学研究
- 受威胁敏感性研究，涵盖病害、盐胁迫与气候变化等方向
- 分类学研究

自1992年以来，该中心已成功保藏约3638份种子馆藏。这些馆藏覆盖了澳大利亚《环境保护与生物多样性保护法》（Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, EPBC Act）中收录的77%的国家受威胁物种、西澳78%的公告稀有植物（Declared Rare Flora）以及22%的西澳优先保育植物（Priority flora），其中还包含大量与受威胁生态群落相关的物种种子。