Service Notice

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. The project team is now conducting testing of the migrated data, and a further update will be provided by the end of the financial year (1 July). 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 Wednesday, 1 July 2026 +08:00.

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Scientific Plant Names Dictionary

A Microsoft Word-compatible custom dictionary which contains all family, generic, species and infraspecies names in current use for Western Australian plants. The dictionary now contains scientific names for those non-vascular plants and fungi now covered in Florabase databases, as well as synonyms of current names in use.

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Nomenclature, Literature Citation, Authorities

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