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.
Maireana atkinsiana (Bronze Bluebush) is an intricately branched shrub growing to 60 cm high with slightly hairy, succulent, obovoid leaves, 5–10 mm long.
ReadNew research was published today in Nuytsia including a revision of Balaustion (Myrtaceae).
ReadDarwinia polychroma (Harlequin Bell) is a tidy, compact shrub growing to 1.2 m high and featuring a pendulous inflorescence surrounded by shiny, multi-coloured bracts in several overlapping rows.
ReadAphanopetalum clematideum is a scrambling shrub or twining vine that can reach a few metres in height when growing naturally up a tree or other support.
ReadGuichenotia 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.
ReadPraecoxanthus 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.
ReadThe stunning cover for Volume 33 has been unveiled today along with the first batch of papers for 2022.
ReadThis month we are highlighting the fluffy red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis (foxtails), which until recently might have gone unnoticed in the marine flora.
ReadCephalotus 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.
ReadPelloe’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.
ReadNuytsia finishes with a flourish this year, featuring a publication by the indomitable Dr Barbara Rye.
ReadDrosera pulchella (Pretty Sundew) is a common pygmy sundew growing to 3–4 cm high.
ReadStylidium scariosum (Common Reed Triggerplant) is a reed-like perennial herb growing to 10–80 cm high.
ReadCheiranthera simplicifolia is a very inconspicuous shrub except when in flower in late spring, from September to October.
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