The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.
The notice period
started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.
Three species of Amanita Pers. are documented from Western Australia. Amanita drummondii E.M.Davison is described from the south-west region; it appears to be widespread but infrequent. Amanita quenda E.M.Davison is described from the Perth Metropolitan area. Amanita walpolei O.K.Mill. is redescribed to include additional collections, drawing attention to the presence of clamp connections in all tissues. A BLASTn search has shown that there are no exact matches of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of each species with those in GenBank.
Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2014
Synostemon hamersleyensis I.Telford & Naaykens (Phyllanthaceae), morphologically similar to but distinct from Sauropus aphyllus J.T.Hunter & J.J.Bruhl, is named as new and its habitat, distribution and conservation status are discussed. The new species is endemic to ironstone formations of the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara, central Western Australia.
Hibiscus sp. Ninghan Station (A.A. Mitchell 1161) is synonymous with Radyera farragei