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.
New species of Acacia, Brachyloma, Conostephium and Drosera were published today along with a summary of updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2024.
Pictured here is Drosera actinioides, a woolly sundew from the Kimberley with highly branched, blackish red styles that have been whimsically likened to the red tentacles of sea anemones (genus Actinia). Photograph by Noah Juve.
