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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. The Herbarium team, working with the Biodiversity Information Office, now have the Nomos-hosted WACensus in production, and we will begin to update the flora and fungi for WA within the system soon. The Specify project team continues to test and streamline the new collections management system, and we expect this to be online in October. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Thursday, 1 October 2026 +08:00.

Browse the Western Australian Flora

Browse the complete list of WA’s families of plants, fungi, algae and protists. Icons to the right indicate additional content available, and the navigation element to the left of each name will expand the family listing to include its component genera. The same functions are then available for the genera in order to display all WA species for that group.

Araceae Juss.
Gen.Pl. [Jussieu] 23 (1789)
Alocasia (Schott) G.Don
Hort.Brit. [Sweet] edn. 3:631 (1839)
Amorphophallus Decne.
Nouv.Ann.Mus.Hist.Nat. 366 (1835)
Arisarum Mill.
Gard.Dict.Abr. Edn. 4, 1 (1754)
Colocasia Schott
Melet.Bot. 18 (1832)
Landoltia Les & D.J.Crawford
Novon 9:532 (1999)
Lazarum A.Hay
Bot.J.Linn.Soc. 109(3):428 (1992)
Lemna L.
Sp.Pl. [Linnaeus] 2:970 (1753)
Pistia L.
Sp.Pl. [Linnaeus] 2:963 (1753)
Spirodela Schleid.
Linnaea p391 (1839)
Syngonium Schott
Wiener Z.Kunst 1829(3):780 (1829)
Typhonium Schott
Wiener Z.Kunst 732 (1829)
Wolffia Schleid.
Beitr.Bot. 1:233 (1844)
Zantedeschia Spreng.
Syst.Veg. 3:756, 765 (1826)

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Note

A taxon name that is no longer current will retain its ‘Threatened’, ‘Extinct’, or ‘Extinct in the Wild’ status until a new name has been published in a Biodiversity Conservation Order.