Control of the invasive liana, Hiptage benghalensis (original) (raw)

Vitelli, J. S., Madigan, B. A., Van Haaren, P. E., Setter, S. D. and Logan, P. (2009)Control of the invasive liana, Hiptage benghalensis. Weed Biology and Management, 9 (1). pp. 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-6664.2008.00318.x

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Article Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-6664.2008.00318.x

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Abstract

The liana, hiptage (Hiptage benghalensis), is currently invading the wet tropics of northern Queensland and remnant bushland in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Trials using seven herbicides and three application methods (foliar, basal bark, and cut stump) were undertaken at a site in north Queensland (158 700 hiptage plants ha−1). The foliar-applied herbicides were only effective in controlling the hiptage seedlings. Of the foliar herbicides trialed, dicamba, fluroxypyr, and triclopyr/picloram controlled >75% of the treated seedlings. On the larger plants, the cut stump applications were more effective than the basal bark treatments. Kills of >95% were obtained when the plants were cut close to ground level (5 cm) and treated with herbicides that were mixed with diesel (fluroxypyr and triclopyr/picloram), with water (glyphosate), or were applied neat (picloram). The costings for the cut stump treatment of a hiptage infestation (85 000 plants ha−1), excluding labor, would be A14324ha−1usingpicloramandA14 324 ha−1 using picloram and A14324ha−1usingpicloramandA5294 ha−1 and A2676ha−1,respectively,usingglyphosateandfluroxypyr.FoliarapplicationusingdicambaforseedlingcontrolwouldcostA2676 ha−1, respectively, using glyphosate and fluroxypyr. Foliar application using dicamba for seedling control would cost A2676ha−1,respectively,usingglyphosateandfluroxypyr.FoliarapplicationusingdicambaforseedlingcontrolwouldcostA1830 ha−1. The costs range from 2–17 cents per plant depending on the treatment. A lack of hiptage seeds below the soil surface, a high germinability (>98%) of the viable seeds, a low viability (0%) of 2 year old, laboratory-stored fruit, and a seedling density of 0.1 seedlings m−2 12 months after a control program indicate that hiptage might have a short-term seed bank. Protracted recolonization from the seed bank would therefore be unlikely after established seed-producing plants have been controlled.

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