For more than seventy years it was considered extinct, apparently killed out by grazing stock.

In the mid-1980s control of feral rabbits on nearby Phillip Island allowed plant seedlings to survive in accessible areas for the first time in more than one hundred years, and in 1985 some seedlings of Abutilon julianae were discovered.

[3] This was one of the first unexpected bonus benefits of rabbit control (and subsequent eradication).

It is listed as Critically Endangered under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

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