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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.

Ochnaceae DC.
Nouv.Bull.Sci.Soc.Philom.Paris 2:209 (1811)
Ochrolechiaceae Lumbsch & I.Schmitt
J.Hattori Bot.Lab. 100:760 (2006)
Octoblepharaceae M.Menzel
Cuscatlania 1(5):10 (1991)
Odontotremataceae D.Hawksw. & Sherwood
Mycotaxon 16:263-264 (1982)
Oedipodiaceae
Okellyaceae Leliaert & Rueness
Eur.J.Phycol. 44(4):494 (2009)
Olacaceae R.Br.
Narr.Exped.Zaire 452 (1818)
Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Fl.Portug. 1:62 (1809)
Olpidiaceae
Omphalotaceae Bres.
Pl.Syst.Evol. 150:113 (1985)
Onagraceae Juss.
Gen.Pl. [Jussieu] 317 (1789)
Onygenaceae
Opegraphaceae Stizenb.
Ber.Thatigk.St.Gallischen Naturwiss.Ges. 153 (1862)
Ophioglossaceae Martinov
Tekhno-Bot.Slovar 438 (1820)
Ophioparmaceae R.W.Rogers & Hafellner
Lichenologist 20:172 (1988)
Ophiostomataceae Nannf.
Nova Acta Regiae Soc.Sci.Upsal. 8(2):30 (1932)
Opiliaceae Valeton
Crit.Overz.Olacin. p136 (1886)
Orchidaceae Juss.
Gen.Pl. [Jussieu] 64 (1789)
Orobanchaceae Vent.
Tabl.Regn.Vég. 2:292 (1799)
Orthodontiaceae Goffinet
Bryoph.Biol. 104 (2000)
Orthogonacladiaceae G.H.Boo, L.Le Gall, K.A.Mill. & S.M.Boo
Molec.Phylogen.Evol. 101:369 (2016)
Orthotrichaceae Arn.
Disp.Méth.Mousses 13-14 (1825)
Oscillatoriaceae Engl.
Syllabus Edn. 2:6 (1898)
Ostreobiaceae
Otideaceae
Oxalidaceae R.Br.
Narr.Exped.Zaire p433 (1818)
Oxymitraceae
Oxyporaceae Zmitr. & Malysheva
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya 48(3):169 (2014)

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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.