Skip to main content

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.

Advanced Search

Zaleya galericulata (Melville) H.Eichler subsp. galericulata

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Annual or perennial, succulent herb, to 0.3(-1.5) m high. Red sand or sandy or gravelly loam, alluvial soils, limestone, ironstone, granite. Plains, slopes, along creek margins and drainage channels, on rocky hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 30 January 2007
Image

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Ashburton, Cape Range, Chichester, Fortescue, Hamersley, Hart, Keep, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Mitchell, Roebourne, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Karratha, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Upper Gascoyne, Wyndham-East Kimberley.