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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Lectotypification of ten Restionaceae species names from south-west Western Australia
BARRETT, R.L. AND BRIGGS, B.G.

A lectotype is selected for ten names published in 1993 and 1996 by K. Dixon, K.A. Meney and J. Pate for species of Restionaceae in the genera Desmocladus Nees, Harperia W.Fitzg., Hypolaena R.Br., Lepidobolus Nees, Loxocarya R.Br., Onychosepalum Steud., Leptocarpus R.Br. and Restio Rottb. The relevant species originally named in Leptocarpus and Restio are now included in Meeboldina Suess. and Chordifex B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson respectively. Additional collections of the ten taxa involved are also cited.

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