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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Volume 24

Issue Date: 1 May 2014

Permalink: https://doi.org/10.58828/niss00075

An amphibious Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) from an ephemeral arid zone wetland

GIBSON, N., Nuytsia 24: 23–28 (2014)

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Stylidium lithophilum and S. oreophilum (Stylidiaceae), two new species of conservation significance from Stirling Range National Park

WEGE, J.A., Nuytsia 24: 29–35 (2014)

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Two new species of Calandrinia (Portulacaceae) from southern Western Australia

OBBENS, F.J., Nuytsia 24: 37–43 (2014)

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Two new species in Calandrinia Kunth. sect. Pseudodianthoideae Poelln., C. baccata Obbens and C. oraria Obbens, are described as new.

Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2013

PARKER, C.M. AND BIGGS, L.J., Nuytsia 24: 45–63 (2014)

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Lasiopetalum adenotrichum (Malvaceae s. lat.), a new species from Fitzgerald River National Park

MEISSNER, R.A., RATHBONE, D.A. AND WILKINS, C.F., Nuytsia 24: 65–69 (2014)

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The new species Lasiopetalum adenotrichum R.A.Meissn. & Rathbone is here described. It is a priority species for conservation in Western Australia and is endemic to Fitzgerald River National Park.

New species from the Leucopogon pulchellus group (Ericaceae: Styphelioideae: Styphelieae)

HISLOP, M., Nuytsia 24: 71–93 (2014)

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Five new species and one new subspecies of Leucopogon R.Br. (L. audax Hislop, L. corymbiformis Hislop, L. darlingensis Hislop, L. decrescens Hislop, L. subsejunctus Hislop and L. darlingensis subsp. rectus Hislop) are described, illustrated and mapped. Aspects of the morphology and taxonomy of the informal Leucopogon pulchellus Sond. group are discussed and an interim key is provided to distinguish between the five informal groups and other unplaced species of Leucopogon s. str. from Western Australia.

Scaevola xanthina (Goodeniaceae), a new yellow-flowered species from the south coast of Western Australia

SHEPHERD, K.A. AND HISLOP, M., Nuytsia 24: 95–99 (2014)

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Scaevola xanthina K.A.Sheph. & Hislop, a new species readily distinguished by its prostrate habit and yellow flowers, is here described. This species is geographically restricted and is currently only known from Mount Manypeaks Nature Reserve. It is listed according to Department of Parks and Wildlife Conservation Codes for Western Australia Flora as a Priority Two taxon under the phrase-name Scaevola sp. Waychinicup (E.M. Sandiford EMS 1336). Images and an amendment to the Flora of Australia key to Scaevola L. are included.

Ammannia fitzgeraldii, a nom. nov. for Nesaea repens (Lythraceae)

BARRETT, R.L., Nuytsia 24: 101–102 (2014)

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