{"title":"Kunzea dracopetrensis (Myrtaceae: Leptospermeae), an uncommon new species from Western Australia’s south-eastern wheatbelt","authors":"R. Butcher","doi":"10.58828/nuy00958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00958","url":null,"abstract":"Many new species discovered by botanists in Western Australia are not recognised as different in the field but from within an herbarium’s existing collection during the curation or study of specimens. Kunzea dracopetrensis R.Butcher, the new species described herein, is one such species. It was identified as new during curation of the Western Australian Herbarium’s Kunzea Rchb. collection while expediting the publication of three new Threatened taxa from the Ravensthorpe region (Toelken & Craig 2007) as part of the Western Australian Government’s Saving Our Species special edition of Nuytsia (Vol. 17). Two distinctive and morphologically congruent specimens (A.M. Coates 3107; K. Kershaw KK 2184) were identified from two nearby localities within Dragon Rocks Nature Reserve, c. 35 km north of Newdegate in the south-eastern wheatbelt region; one specimen was retrieved from within the extensive K. preissiana Schauer collection, while the other had been recognised as unusual and languished in the “Kunzea sp.” folder. The phrase name K. sp. Dragon Rocks (K. Kershaw KK 2184) was subsequently erected on Western Australia’s vascular plant census, and the taxon added to the State’s conservation list. To date, no populations have been located outside this reserve.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133168045","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":"Leucopogon kirupensis (Ericaceae: Styphelioideae: Styphelieae), a new, short-range endemic from the south-west corner of Western Australia","authors":"M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00957","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Leucopogon R.Br. has been recently recircumscribed to include only those species with terminal inflorescences and (usually) sterile anther tips (Crayn et al. 2020). The transfer to Styphelia Sm. of the remaining species (i.e. those with strictly axillary inflorescences lacking sterile anther tips), together with all species previously placed in Astroloma R.Br., Coleanthera Stschegl. and Croninia J.M.Powell, means that Styphelia has now replaced Leucopogon as Australia’s most speciose epacrid genus. However, Leucopogon remains a large genus, especially in Western Australia where 97 published taxa are currently accepted on the State’s vascular plant census (Western Australian Herbarium 1998‒), with the richest part of the State (and hence of Australia) being the Jarrah Forest bioregion (Department of the Environment 2013). The uncommon species described below brings to 52 the number of currently accepted, published Leucopogon taxa for this region, putting it narrowly ahead of the Esperance Plains bioregion, which has 46 (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127922945","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 rediscovered rarity: Pimelea cruciata (Thymelaeaceae), a new species from Western Australia’s Mallee bioregion","authors":"J. Wege, B. Rye","doi":"10.58828/nuy00955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00955","url":null,"abstract":"More than 30 years ago, Eileen Croxford―a prolific plant collector, particularly in southern Western Australia―made three collections of an undescribed species of Pimelea Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn. from the Tarin Rock area. These specimens do not appear to have been incorporated into the collection at the Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH) until after revisionary work on the genus had been completed (Rye 1988). Although the new taxon has been informally recognised as P. sp. Tarin Rock (E.J. Croxford 2118) since 1999 (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–), its taxonomic resolution has been impeded by the paucity of herbarium material available for study combined with a lack of field observations. Targeted field research conducted in 2017 led to its rediscovery in the wild and confirmation of its status as a distinct species. Its description below adds to the spate of recent research on Pimelea that has included the recognition of eight new species from Queensland (Bean 2017) and one from Tasmania (Gray & Baker 2016), and resulted in an improved understanding of systematic relationships (Motsi et al. 2010; Foster et al. 2016).","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131982396","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":"Schoenus coultasii (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae), a new annual species known from a single site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia","authors":"M. Hislop","doi":"10.58828/nuy00954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00954","url":null,"abstract":"Schoenus L. is a large, cosmopolitan genus concentrated in the southern hemisphere, with more than 90 species in Australia (Wilson 1993). It comprises species that are either clearly perennial (the majority) or clearly annual, with a few others that are ambiguous in this regard but are possibly shortlived perennials. Under the modified sectional classification adopted by Musili et al. (2016: 267), the annual species are placed in sect. Helothrix (Nees) Kük.; however, they do not form a monophyletic group in the phylogenetic trees published in the same paper (Musili et al. 2016: 271, 272), apparently indicating that a change to the current infrageneric classification will be necessary.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125148218","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":"Sixty years in the making: Isopogon nutans (Proteaceae), a new species with pendulous flower heads","authors":"M. Hislop, B. Rye","doi":"10.58828/nuy00953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00953","url":null,"abstract":"The new species of Isopogon R.Br. described below was first collected in October 1960 on two separate occasions, firstly by Alex George from east of Newdegate and then five days later by Charles Gardner from Mt Madden. Many years previously, Gardner had drafted a treatment of the family Proteaceae for his proposed second volume of Flora of Western Australia, and so was well placed to recognise the distinctiveness of this new species. He called it I. nutans C.A.Gardner ms (on C.A. Gardner 13988; PERTH), but subsequently applied the name I. cernuus C.A.Gardner ms to the same specimen. Neither of these manuscript names was added to Western Australia’s vascular plant census.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129462208","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":"Worthy of love: Geleznowia amabilis (Rutaceae), a stunning new species of ‘Yellow Bells’ from Kalbarri in Western Australia","authors":"K. Shepherd, A. Crawford","doi":"10.58828/nuy00952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00952","url":null,"abstract":"1Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Western Australia 6983 2Threatened Flora Seed Centre, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Western Australia 6983 1Corresponding author, email: Kelly.Shepherd@dbca.wa.gov.au","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124645766","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":"Corchorus fitzroyensis (Malvaceae: Grewioideae), a new, poorly known species from Western Australia’s Kimberley region","authors":"R. Barrett, K. Shepherd, S. Dillon","doi":"10.58828/nuy00951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00951","url":null,"abstract":"The taxonomy of the stellate-haired species of Corchorus L. in the north-west of Australia is quite complex and far from fully resolved (see Halford 2004); however, the new species described below, while not particularly striking, is sufficiently morphologically distinct to warrant its taxonomic recognition. Found along the Fitzroy River valley in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, this species is currently considered to be of conservation concern because its known habitat has been severely impacted by grazing.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"7 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120988160","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":"Grevillea hystrix (Proteaceae), a poorly known species from sandplain country in Western Australia’s Coolgardie bioregion","authors":"R. Davis","doi":"10.58828/nuy00950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00950","url":null,"abstract":"The new species of Grevillea Knight (Proteaceae) described below was first collected from an area of sandplain near Koolyanobbing by William Muir in 2013 as part of industry-funded survey work. It was recognised as an undescribed species the following year upon examination of material donated to the Western Australian Herbarium, and subsequently was targeted by Herbarium staff for further collections and observations. Despite extensive areas of sandplain habitat in the region, it remains known from only a single population.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"3 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131438209","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":"Hibbertia proberae (Dilleniaceae), a new, rare and geographically anomalous species from the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia","authors":"K. Thiele","doi":"10.58828/nuy00949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00949","url":null,"abstract":"Hibbertia proberae K.R.Thiele sp. nov. was discovered in the remote Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia in autumn 2018. It was highly unexpected at that location as very few species of Hibbertia Andrews occur so far east in southern Western Australia, the only others being H. crispula J.M.Black, which has disjunct populations on the eastern and western margins of the Great Victoria Desert, and disjunct populations of the Western Australian species H. exasperata (Steud.) Briq. near Queen Victoria Springs and the Officer Basin. Subsequently, a second specimen was mounted at PERTH, collected from the Mulga Rock Uranium Project in 2016. Hibbertia proberae is morphologically distinct from any other known species in western or eastern Australia.","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122755274","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":"Living on the edge: Hemigenia diadela (Lamiaceae), a new species from remnant vegetation in Western Australia’s northern Avon Wheatbelt","authors":"J. Wege, G. Guerin","doi":"10.58828/nuy00948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy00948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415779,"journal":{"name":"Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132981912","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}