Science Articles

Staff at the Western Australian Herbarium publish articles here that help the FloraBase user community better interpret the detailed taxonomic content presented in this site and understand the relevance and consequence of some of the many changes in species names and concepts that are concommitant with our increasing knowledge of the State's plant biodiversity. Articles backgrounding FloraBase descriptive content and flora management classifications will also appear here.

For recent published scientific papers on our flora, refer to Nuytsia - WA's Journal of Systematic Botany.

Available Articles

• Discovery of the Water Wheel Plant Aldrovanda vesiculosa near Cape Le Grand.
  Skye Coffey, 7 October 2009
• Ten Years of FloraBase, presented at TDWG 2008.
  Ben Richardson and Alex Chapman, 20 October 2008
• Why dryandras have changed their name.
  Kevin Thiele, 20 May 2008
• Why names change: the new thinking in taxonomy.
  Kevin Thiele, 20 May 2008
• Categories of Plant Name in use at the WA Herbarium.
  Alex Chapman, 10 August 2007
• A guide to the Linnaean species occurring in Western Australia.
  Alex Chapman, 22 May 2007
• A visual guide to the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) in WA.
  Alex Chapman, 13 June 2005

Archive Articles

• Bioinformatics: management and publication of institutional descriptive datasets at the Western Australian Herbarium,
  presented at the XVI International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, USA.
  Alex R. Chapman and Terry D. Macfarlane, 1 August 1999

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