{"title":"Nowhere to be seen: Deyeuxia abscondita (Poaceae), a new but presumed extinct species from south-western Australia","authors":"T. Macfarlane","doi":"10.58828/nuy00969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00969","url":null,"abstract":"On 8th December 1877 Ferdinand von Mueller travelled from Bunbury to the Balingup area of Western Australia during a survey for a report on the forest resources for the government (Mueller 1879). A grass collected that day from ‘Preston River’ (Figure 1) or ‘Blackwood and Preston Rivers’, as stated on two different handwritten labels, lay unidentified even to genus for more than a hundred years until assigned to Deyeuxia Clarion ex P.Beauv. by N. Walsh in 1987. A second specimen remained unidentified for a further period until tentatively suggested to be Lachnagrostis Trin. by A.J. Brown in 2002 or Dichelachne Endl. by Walsh and Brown in 2003. When I was consulted as to whether the plant was known or a placement could be suggested, I could not recognise it and was unable to find a match in the collections at the Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH), but considered that Pentapogon R.Br. was another possible genus placement. Upon further, more detailed examination of its spikelets, I have concluded that it does indeed belong in Deyeuxia. Field work has so far failed to discover any live plants so it must be presumed to be extinct. It is formally described here to draw it to the attention of people who might look for it, enable its recognition if rediscovered, and to place on record the characteristics of this lost element of biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114413605","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":"Gomphrena verecunda (Amaranthaceae), a modest new species from Western Australia’s arid zone","authors":"R. Davis","doi":"10.58828/nuy00968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00968","url":null,"abstract":"The new species of Gomphrena L. described below was first collected by David William Goodall in 1965; however, it wasn’t recognised as a potential new species for another 30 years (Ray Cranfield in sched.) and Palmer (1998) does not appear to have viewed any material during her revision of the genus in Australia. Targeted field work was recently conducted to obtain type material and enable its taxonomic status as a distinct species to be confirmed.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114098943","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 new Wedding Bush from the eastern goldfields of Western Australia (Ricinocarpos digynus: Euphorbiaceae)","authors":"J. Wege, M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00967","url":null,"abstract":"Ricinocarpos digynus Hislop & Wege is the first addition to Ricinocarpos Desf. (Euphorbiaceae: Ricinocarpeae: Ricinocarpinae) since Halford and Henderson’s (2007) taxonomic revision in which 28 species were recognised, all of them endemic to Australia. As part of this study, Halford determined a single specimen of R. digynus (J. Bale 313), collected from the Kambalda area in 1966, as R. stylosus Diels s. lat. with a notation that the specimen was atypical in its ‘longer leaves and spreading rather than appressed petioles’. That it was not confirmed to represent a new taxon at this time is unsurprising since the material not only lacks fruit but the female flowers are in early bud. The recent discovery of a second population on a mining lease north of Kalgoorlie by Andrea Williams of Botanica Consulting, and her repeated site visits to obtain fruiting material, has assisted its taxonomic resolution. We describe this new and distinctive species below, bringing the number of Western Australian Ricinocarpos species to 19 (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–) of which seven are conservation-listed (Smith & Jones 2018).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123446165","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":"Out of the dark: Leptofauchea lucida (Rhodymeniales: Faucheaceae), a new red algal species from the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia","authors":"G. Saunders, J. Huisman","doi":"10.58828/nuy00966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00966","url":null,"abstract":"The red algal genus Leptofauchea Kylin has a vegetative anatomy akin to Rhodymenia Greville (i.e. with flattened branches and structurally with a pseudoparenchymatous medulla and cortex), but with cystocarps incorporating a tela arachnoidea (a weft of stellate cells lining the inner wall of the pericarp). The genus was based on L. nitophylloides (J.Agardh) Kylin from Port Jackson, Australia, and currently includes ten species (Guiry & Guiry 2019).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128370516","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":"Formal naming of Bossiaea reptans (Fabaceae), an endangered species from the Warren region, Western Australia","authors":"R. Hearn, T. Macfarlane, J. H. Ross, J. Smith","doi":"10.58828/nuy00965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123959247","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":"Olearia adpressa (Asteraceae: Astereae), a new, geographically restricted species from shale breakaways in the Mid West of Western Australia","authors":"M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132503180","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":"Styphelia capillaris (Ericaceae: Epacridoideae: Styphelieae), a formal name for a Critically Endangered species from Wandoo National Park","authors":"M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129586166","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":"Description of the rare Goldfields Laceflower, Thryptomene planiflora (Myrtaceae)","authors":"B. Rye","doi":"10.58828/nuy00962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127656926","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":"Remarkably unremarkable: Tecticornia enodis (Chenopodiaceae), a new samphire with smooth seeds from the arid interior of Western Australia","authors":"K. Shepherd","doi":"10.58828/nuy00961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00961","url":null,"abstract":"With their succulent, bead-like stems and uncharismatic, sac-like flowers with a single anther and ovary, salt-loving species in the genus Tecticornia Hook.f. (subfam. Salicornioideae Ulbr., Chenopodiaceae) have few obvious diagnostic features. Indeed, they could be considered a ‘taxonomic nightmare’, a phrase coined by experts to describe other species in the closely related genus Salicornia L. (Kadereit et al. 2007). Commonly known as samphires, these plants can exhibit considerable morphological plasticity when grown under different conditions (Ungar 1987). They are also genetically problematic as DNA sequence variation is relatively low, likely due to the relatively recent evolution and rapid radiation of the group. The presence of hybrids and polyploids pose further significant challenges (Shepherd & Yan 2003; Shepherd et al. 2004; Kadereit et al. 2006; Piirainen et al. 2017). Seed coat ornamentation is often useful for identification, particularly among the soft-fruited species of the genus (Wilson 1980; Shepherd et al. 2005); however, seeds are seasonally limited, very small (usually less than 2 mm long), and best observed under a microscope. As a result, the accurate identificaion of plants, particularly sterile specimens, can be very challenging.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"267 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123250752","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":"Following a path less trodden: the new apetalous species Cryptandra subtilis (Rhamnaceae)","authors":"M. Hislop, B. Rye","doi":"10.58828/nuy00959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00959","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128585381","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}