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 species, Hibbertia leucocrossa K.R.Thiele, H. fasciculiflora K.R.Thiele and H. propinqua K.R.Thiele are described as new. All taxa occur north of Perth in the Lesueur Sandplains subregion of the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion in the South West Botanical Province, Western Australia. A revision of a key to the Hibbertia species of Western Australia is provided.
