In Focus

Plant of the Month

May 2026

Vollies’ Minni Ritchi (Acacia doreta Maslin) is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, growing to 1.5–5 m high, with terete phyllodes, and ‘Minni Ritchi’ bark that is red to red-brown and commonly extends to the upper branchlets.

Plant of the Month

April 2026

Get ready this April as the carnivorous red carpet rolls out, it is Drosera rosulata’s time to shine!

New to Nuytsia

Research papers on Styphelia, Amanita and several genera in Orchidaceae and Myrtaceae subtribe Hysterobaeckeinae were published in Nuytsia today. They include the formal description of 19 new taxa, among them a new species endemic to the Northern Territory.

Plant of the Month

March 2026

Sea cactus (Caulerpa cactoides) is one of numerous species of the seaweed genus Caulerpa, which is found on all coasts but at its most diverse in southern Australia.

Plant of the Month

February 2026

There is nothing better than seeking shade in the Jarrah forest on a hot day, and this is where you are likely to find the white-flowered Billardiera (Billardiera floribunda).  

Plant of the Month

January 2025

Here is a twist on the classic Snottygobble: Persoonia helix, one of many species in the genus and a member of the Persoonioideae tribe of the Proteaceae family.

Plant of the Month

December 2025

All alone, the Western Australian Native Gerbera (Trichocline spathulata) sits, spread out across the southwest and some distance from the 20 other members of the genus native to South America.

Plant of the Month

November 2025

Bearing a crown of hearts, Gonocarpus cordiger Nees will surely steal yours!

Plant of the Month

October 2025

While not as well-known as some of the other members of the genus Rhodanthe, which also includes the ‘paper daisies’, Rhodanthe margarethae is a striking species.

New to Nuytsia

Haemodoraceae hits the spotlight with a suite of taxonomic novelties published today in Nuytsia alongside research on Goodeniaceae, Myrtaceae, Scrophulariaceae and a genus of green algae (Pseudobryopsis).

Plant of the Month

September 2025

Being part of a genus that has been around for millions of years, to having a partnership with bacteria, what’s not to love about the Zamia (Macrozamia riedlei)?

Plant of the Month

August 2025

Corchorus crozophorifolius (Baill.) Burret is a much-branched, spreading to erect shrub growing to 1 m high with a floccose indumentum (covered with tufts of soft hair), usually ferruginous (rust coloured) but sometimes white in the northern part of its distribution.