{"title":"Life on the rocks: Darwinia sphaerica (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae), a new species currently known from one granite outcrop","authors":"R. Davis, B. Rye","doi":"10.58828/nuy00979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00979","url":null,"abstract":"Western Australian members of the myrtaceous genus Darwinia Rudge s. lat. belong to sect. Genetyllis (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. and number more than 60 species and subspecies (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). They range from tiny-flowered, insect-pollinated species to spectacular bird-pollinated ones, with many species highly prized in cultivation. The best-known species are arguably the stunning mountain bells of the Stirling Range (see Keighery 1985), which have large, colourful bracts closely surrounding elongated flowers, but even species with small flowers tend to be very attractive when the flowers are massed into head-like clusters.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"372 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131611905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persistence pays off: resolution of Lasiopetalum hapalocalyx (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae), a new species from south-western Australia","authors":"K. Shepherd, Carolyn F. Wilkins","doi":"10.58828/nuy00978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00978","url":null,"abstract":"This new species was first collected in 1995 near Cape Riche on the south coast of Western Australia but its taxonomic status has remained unresolved, in part due to a lack of adequate material. Over the following 25 years, a further 35 specimens of this species and its closest allies were collected during regional surveys or through targeted field research and submitted to the Western Australian Herbarium (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). Access to this additional material has ultimately facilitated its taxonomic resolution.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116066677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gompholobium glabristylum (Fabaceae), a new native pea from montane habitats in Stirling Range National Park","authors":"Elizabeth Marian Sandiford, Carolyn F. Wilkins","doi":"10.58828/nuy00977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00977","url":null,"abstract":"In their revision of Gompholobium Sm. (Mirbelieae: Fabaceae), Chappill et al. (2008) noted that populations of G. villosum (Meisn.) Crisp from the Stirling Range differed from the typical form of the species in a number of respects. Recent field observations together with herbarium-based research have indicated that they should be recognised as a distinct species, described below, 118 years after it was first collected by Alexander Morrison in 1902.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123542601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between a rock and a hard place: Quoya zonalis (Lamiaceae: Chloantheae), a threatened Foxglove from Western Australia’s Pilbara bioregion","authors":"K. Shepherd, M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00976","url":null,"abstract":"The Pilbara Foxglove, described below, is one of only three species from the Pilbara bioregion to be recognised as Threatened (Smith & Jones 2018; Western Australian Herbarium 1998–); however, given the highly prospective nature of the region’s geology, and the presence of many other apparent, short-range endemics, it seems likely that this number will grow in the coming years. Although first detected in 2002, material of this new species was not submitted to the Western Australian Herbarium until 2010. At that time it was confirmed as taxonomically distinct and was added to Western Australia’s vascular plant census under the phrase name Pityrodia sp. Marble Bar (G. Woodman & D. Coultas GWDC Opp 4) (Western Australian Herbarium 1998−). Recent phylogenetic analyses of nuclear ITS and chloroplast ndhF molecular sequence data (M.D. Barrett unpubl. data) confirm that this species, along with the related P. obliqua W.Fitzg., actually belong to the reinstated genus Quoya Gaudich. (Conn et al. 2011). While rare, this species is relatively easy to recognise in the field due to its height, the distinctive colour of its leaves and the fact that it grows in narrow zones along steep rocky slopes of a specific landform.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"50 22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114134708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acacia lachnocarpa (Fabaceae), a new, geographically restricted Wattle from the Coolgardie bioregion of Western Australia","authors":"R. W. Davis, M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00975","url":null,"abstract":"Acacia Mill. is one of Australia’s most iconic plant groups and has long been the subject of highly focused taxonomic research (largely by Bruce Maslin, Richard Cowan and Les Pedley). Over the past 50 years, this research has led to the description of 390 new Western Australian taxa, of which 180 are conservation-listed (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). There are still 75 informally named taxa in Western Australia that require further taxonomic research, including several recent discoveries of potentially rare taxa such as the species dealt with in this paper.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129241395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyeria lateralis (Euphorbiaceae), a previously overlooked new species from Western Australia’s Mallee region","authors":"M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00974","url":null,"abstract":"Members of the genus Beyeria Miq. (Euphorbiaceae: Ricinocarpeae: Ricinocarpinae) are shrubs with mostly small, greenish and inconspicuous, unisexual flowers. In many species all parts of the plants, including the flowers, are thickly coated in resin. The combination of being easily overlooked in the field and having flowers that are difficult to interpret in the dried condition may partly explain why almost half of the currently recognised Western Australian taxa were only described in a recent revision of the genus (Halford & Henderson 2008). Other contributory factors are likely to be an apparently high level of short-range endemism in the genus and the fact that Western Australia has never had a local taxonomist specialising in Euphorbiaceae. The only additions to the western Beyeria in the twentieth century were made by the distinguished English botanist, Herbert Airy Shaw (1971).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129105785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shining some light on a poorly known species: Haloragis luminosa (Haloragaceae), a new Western Australian species from a Threatened Ecological Community","authors":"A. Orchard, J. Wege","doi":"10.58828/nuy00973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123908056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wurmbea flavanthera (Yellow-anthered Wurmbea, Colchicaceae), a new species from Western Australia’s Mid West region","authors":"T. Macfarlane, A. Brown, C. French","doi":"10.58828/nuy00972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00972","url":null,"abstract":"Wurmbea densiflora (Benth.) T.Macfarlane (Colchicaceae) is an attractive, small geophyte bearing several pink flowers, occurring in the northern Wheatbelt and adjacent rangelands of Western Australia. However, the species concept used in a revision of Wurmbea Thunb. in Australia (Macfarlane 1980, 1987) proves to be a mixture of two species, W. densiflora in the original sense of Bentham (1878) and a later-flowering, undescribed species. This second species was given the phrase name W. sp. Paynes Find (C.J. French 1237), by which it has been known for some time (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). The new species, having been well-researched in the field and Herbarium, is formally described below. The previous confusion between the two species was partly due to a lack of field knowledge and an inadequate appreciation of the relatively constrained flowering times of Wurmbea species.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114465105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goodenia quartzitica (Goodeniaceae), a new range-restricted species discovered in a remote part of the eastern Gascoyne bioregion","authors":"K. Shepherd","doi":"10.58828/nuy00971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114250140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case of mistaken identity: Isotropis iophyta (Fabaceae), a new Western Australian Lamb’s Poison previously confused with I. forrestii","authors":"R. W. Davis, J. Wege","doi":"10.58828/nuy00970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00970","url":null,"abstract":"Several species of ‘Lamb’s Poison’ (Isotropis Benth.: Mirbelieae, Fabaceae) have been reported as toxic to stock including I. forrestii F.Muell. (Bennetts 1935; Gardner & Bennetts 1952, 1956; Gardiner & Royce 1967; Cooper et al. 1986). According to Gardiner and Royce (1967: 512) ‘...in mid-October 1966, studies were made of I. forrestii, ingestion of which had just caused the death of 10 cattle on a station near Wiluna in the East Murchison division. Seeds of the variety were found in the rumen contents, and extracts of the plant produced acute death and typical renal damage in guinea-pigs’. Cooper et al. (1986) went on to demonstrate nephrotoxicity in sheep using dried and milled I. forrestii obtained from the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, noting that this material was originally collected from a Meekatharra farm after an outbreak of Isotropis poisoning in sheep. The toxic compound that caused the renal failure was subsequently extracted, found to be novel, and named Iforrestine (Colegate et al. 1989).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124698836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}