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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

New south-western Australian members of the genus Petrophile (Proteaceae: Petrophileae), including a hybrid
RYE, B.L., HISLOP, M., SHEPHERD, K.A. AND HOLLISTER, C.

Four additional species are recognised in the genus Petrophile R.Br. ex J.Knight by the reinstatement of P. axillaris Meisn. and the description of three new species, P. globifera Hislop & K.A.Sheph., P. foremanii Hislop & Rye and P. septemfida Rye & K.A. Sheph. A hybrid between P. ericifolia R.Br. and P. seminuda Lindl. is documented, the new subspecies divaricata Hislop & K.A.Sheph. is named for P. conifera Meisn., and a lectotype is selected for P. seminuda var. indivisa Benth. There is also a key for members of the genus occurring in Western Australia, excluding those belonging to Petrophile sect. Arthrostigma (Endl.) Kuntze.