Florabase is a dynamic and interactive resource brought to you by the Western Australian Herbarium that provides information about our State’s extraordinary botanical diversity.
The Western Australian Herbarium acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and waters from where our collections have come, and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Guichenotia macrantha (Large-flowered Guichenotia) is an upright, small to medium shrub growing to 1.5 m in height and boasting large crepey, soft pink to mauve flowers.
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Praecoxanthus aphyllus (Leafless Orchid) grows to 20–40 cm high and produces a single, highly fragrant flower from March to May, making it one of the first orchids to flower in the year.
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The stunning cover for Volume 33 has been unveiled today along with the first batch of papers for 2022.
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This month we are highlighting the fluffy red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis (foxtails), which until recently might have gone unnoticed in the marine flora.
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Cephalotus follicularis (Albany Pitcher Plant) is a compact, carnivorous herb producing a flower stem up to 60 cm tall bearing an inflorescence of 4–5, very small, white-pale green flowers with white petal-like tepals, mauve filaments and white anthers.
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Pelloe’s Babingtonia is a shrub growing to 0.3–0.6 m high, usually with an open habit and erect slender stems bearing numerous short lateral branchlets.
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Nuytsia finishes with a flourish this year, featuring a publication by the indomitable Dr Barbara Rye.
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Drosera pulchella (Pretty Sundew) is a common pygmy sundew growing to 3–4 cm high.
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Stylidium scariosum (Common Reed Triggerplant) is a reed-like perennial herb growing to 10–80 cm high.
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Cheiranthera simplicifolia is a very inconspicuous shrub except when in flower in late spring, from September to October.
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Hibbertia miniata (Orange Hibbertia) is a sprawling, multi-stemmed shrub, growing to 20–40 cm high.
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The stars aligned today for Nuytsia with the publication of several new papers.
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Juliet Wege is teaming up with Ben Anderson (WA Herbarium) and Felix Forest (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) to sequence 240 members of the triggerplant family in partnership with Bioplatforms Australia as part of the Genomics for Australian Plants initiative.
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Siegfriedia, with the single species S. darwinioides, is a monotypic genus in the family Rhamnaceae.
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Styphelia tortifolia is a low compact shrub, growing to 0.6 m in height and producing a spectacular display of firecracker red, tubular flowers from about June to September.
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