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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Gamochaeta calviceps (Fernald) Cabrera

Reference
Bol.Soc.Argent.Bot. 9:368 (1961)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Annual, herb, to 0.15 m high. Fl. yellow-brown, Nov. Grey sandy clay, red-brown sandy loam, peaty sand over granite. Winter-wet depressions, river flats, road verges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 August 2003

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Busselton, Cockburn, Collie, Fremantle, Jerramungup, Kalamunda, Manjimup, Meekatharra, Nannup, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Serpentine-Jarrahdale.