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.
Three new taxa are described: Banksia ashbyi Baker f. subsp. boreoscaia A.S.George, B. incana A.S.George var. brachyphylla A.S.George and B. sphaerocarpa R.Br. var. pumilio A.S.George. The taxon described as B. sphaerocarpa var. latifolia F.Muell. ex Benth. (1870) and later placed in synonymy under var. sphaerocarpa has recently been rediscovered and is again recognised as an accepted taxon.
