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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. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday season and associated agency and facility soft closures, along with the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 March 2026, when a further update will be provided. 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 Monday, 2 March 2026 +08:00.

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Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

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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).

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25 Sep 2025
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New to Nuytsia

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.

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8 Jul 2025
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New to Nuytsia

An intricately branched Samolus discovered during surveys of Fortescue Marsh and a novel Goodenia from arid WA and the NT are amongst the research published today in Nuytsia.

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16 May 2025
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New to Nuytsia

New taxa in Styphelia, Tecticornia and Eucalyptus have been published today including the Rattlesnake Samphire (Tecticornia crotalus), which has an inflorescence that has been fancifully likened to a rattlesnake’s tail.

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28 Nov 2024
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New to Nuytsia

15 new species of Stylidium from northern Australia have been published today in Nuytsia along with a key to the species found in the NT.

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25 Oct 2024
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New to Nuytsia

New names have been published today in Leucopogon, Cynodon, Goodenia and Thryptomene.

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29 Aug 2024
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New to Nuytsia

Three new species of Thysanotus have been published today along with typification details for several species of Myrtaceae.

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3 May 2024
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New to Nuytsia

A summary of updates to WA’s vascular plant census has been published today, along with research on Styphelia, Pterostylis, Hibbertia and Calandrinia.

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22 Mar 2024
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Changes to Nuytsia

Nuytsia has transitioned to a fully online journal, which means hardcopies will no longer be produced. Individual papers will continue to be published throughout the year on Florabase where they remain freely available.

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22 Mar 2024
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New to Nuytsia

Research published today includes a new slime mould for Western Australia along with three new Styphelia species and two new fungi records.

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Updated: 22 Mar 2024
20 Jul 2023
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New to Nuytsia

Newly described species of Acacia (Fabaceae), Acrotriche (Ericaceae) and Amanita (Basidiomycota) are among the research published today.

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27 Apr 2023
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New to Nuytsia

Novel species of Hypocalymma, Amanita and Pterostylis are among the research published this week by the Western Australian Herbarium.

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24 Mar 2023
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