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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Two new species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from Western Australia
DAVIS, R.W.

Two new species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from the central and southern regions of Western Australia are described: Ptilotus chrysocomus R.W. Davis, known from one location near the Carnarvon Range in the vicinity of the abandoned Blue Hill Station, Little Sandy Desert; and Ptilotus halophilus R.W. Davis, known from the margins of Lake Altham and from Lake Hurlstone Reserve in the Lake Grace to Pingrup and Holt Rock to Hyden areas.