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Hello Canofcatfood,

Thank you for your work. Just a couple of things:

Please remember to sign your adds to talk pages. (Just add 3 tildes (~~~) at the end of your contribution.)

All binomials (such as Phebalium distans) must be in italics.

In the Phebalium distans article, you wrote "seed dispersal for this species is very localized". The only reference to "seed dispersal" in the conservation advice is "The fruit is a capsule with small seeds which are shed locally." "Shed locally" and "very localised" have different meanings.

I have made mistakes before, but I can find nothing in the conservation advice that claims "Phebalium distans has not been observed to reproduce vegetatively'' or that "Medium-term monitoring by Forster (2003), found no indication that vegetative reproduction occurred during disturbance or as a result of fire".

My best wishes to you, and I look forward to more of your contributions to Wikipedia.

Gderrin (talk) 01:45, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, P. distans seed dispersal has not been studied but in the "Nomination to change the conservation class of a species under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992" reference Forster makes a lot of assumptions which are based off of other phebalium species because there's no scientific studies being done. He wrote that it has localised seed dispersion where it shreds locally around the parent plant. The species was thought to be relatively common prior to land clearing with closely connected populations through out the range distribution where long distance seed dispersal would not have been a necessary adaptation.

The Rutaceae family has a lot of species which utilise explosive dehiscence (ballistochory) as a dispersal mechanism. My theory is that P. distans may have a reduced capacity or completely lost that ability due to occurring on hillslopes and leans more towards dispersal by ants (myrmecochory), putting more energy towards through suckering. Several phebalium species are known to be diplochorous by having two dispersal mechanisms ballistochory followed by myrmecochory. I haven't looked at the seeds myself but the study in the reference has species with adaptation to supply ants with a food source similar to acacia seed arils, and notches in the seed to assist in them being carried by ants. Due to this the dispersal mechanisms it gives the species a localised dispersion with locally shedding seed capsules.

ref:

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/consultations/c14e8fc3-2d8f-46cc-bacf-ecd59fa035ab/files/cam-assessment-phebalium-distans.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237098814_The_Ecology_Biology_and_Conservation_of_Threatened_Phebalium_Species_in_South_Australia Canofcatfood (talk) 13:45, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that you are marking your edits as "minor" and I am guessing that you don't understand Wikipedia means by a minor edit, which is really just copyedits (fix a typo). See Help:Minor edit for more details. Your edits are not minor so please don't tick that box. Kerry (talk) 22:36, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also notice that you are adding citations in a somewhat unusual way using {{reflist|refs=... which has a couple of disadvantages. It is more work for you and it separates the citation from the text within the article. I think you are doing it this way because you are using the text editor rather than the visual editor. Can I suggest you go to your Preferences, then to the Editing tab and then scroll down and tick the box "Enable the visual editor" and then set "Editing mode" to "show me both editor tabs" and click Save (lower left) and then you can use either editor (or switch between them during a single edit using the "pencil" symbol). It is much easier to use the visual editor for most article writing and much easier to create citations. Wikimedia Australia has helpful advice here as well as how-to videos available at https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Editing_Guide. I am a trainer with Wikimedia Australia and I can do a Zoom session with you (a free service!) to show you how to use the Visual Editor at a mutually convenient time. Or there are monthly scheduled free events to assist newer users ("Introduction to Wikipedia" and "Drop-In-And-Wiki") if you prefer, see here for details Kerry (talk) 23:00, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]