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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Volume 32

Issue Date: 24 June 2021

Permalink: https://doi.org/10.58828/niss00155

Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020

PERCY-BOWER, J.M. AND PARKER, C.M., Nuytsia 32: 1–23 (2021)

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Key to the genera of Ericaceae subfamily Epacridoideae (formerly Epacridaceae) in Western Australia

HISLOP, M., Nuytsia 32: 25–28 (2021)

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Interim key to, and composition of, species groups in Western Australian Styphelia

HISLOP, M., Nuytsia 32: 29–37 (2021)

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Two new, orange-flowered Tephrosia (Fabaceae: Millettieae) species from the Kimberley region, in Western Australia’s monsoon tropics

BUTCHER, R., Nuytsia 32: 39–50 (2021)

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Ongoing taxonomic revision of Tephrosia Pers. in Australia is continuing to identify new taxa from study of existing herbarium collections as well as new material gathered from remote and under-collected areas. The Kimberley region of Western Australia is recognised for its biodiversity and endemism, but the recognition of new species is hampered by its inaccessibility, especially to areas of relief with complex microhabitats and refugia. It is from these areas that many recently described species, from across the Western Australian flora, have been collected. This paper describes and illustrates two new, poorly known, orange-flowered species of Tephrosia from the Kimberley region: T. cowiei R.Butcher, a close ally of the Northern Territory’s T. bifacialis Cowie, and T. funicularis R.Butcher, a distinctive new species from sandstone habitats.

Pterostylis occulta (Orchidaceae), a new species from the south-west of Western Australia

BROCKMAN, G. AND FRENCH, C.J., Nuytsia 32: 51–54 (2021)

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Caladenia multiplex (Orchidaceae), a new, sexually deceptive species from the south-west of Western Australia

BROWN, A.P. AND PHILLIPS, R.D., Nuytsia 32: 55–58 (2021)

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Review of the infrageneric classification of Adenanthos (Proteaceae)—the subsections of Adenanthos are polyphyletic

NGE, F.J. AND THIELE, K.R., Nuytsia 32: 59–61 (2021)

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Eremophila rarissima (Scrophulariaceae), a new rarity from Western Australia

BUIRCHELL, B.J. AND BROWN, A.P., Nuytsia 32: 63–66 (2021)

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Redefinition of Tephrosia supina (Fabaceae: Millettiae), a north-west Western Australian endemic, and description of two similar species

BUTCHER, R. AND COWIE, I.D., Nuytsia 32: 67–83 (2021)

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The application of the name Tephrosia supina Domin is clarified herein, with this species determined as being a north-west Western Australian endemic subshrub with pink-purple flowers; T. supina s. str. is differentiated from two similar taxa, which also occur in the Northern Territory and Queensland. These are described herein as T. insolens R.Butcher & Cowie and T. lithosperma R.Butcher & Cowie, and T. supina is lectotypified. Full descriptions and images are provided for these three species and their histories and affinities are discussed.

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to: 50 years of botanical discovery: a golden anniversary edition of Nuytsia, the journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

WEGE, J.A. AND SHEPHERD, K.A., Nuytsia 32: 85 (2021)