Symposium: Species Delimitation

Lindsay R. J. Shelton (Western Botanical Consultancy and The Western Australian Herbarium); Nicole Dakin (Western Botanical Consultancy) and Geoff Cockerton (Western Botanical Consultancy).  Preliminary data supports the reinstatement of an Eastern variety of Persoonia angustiflora endemic to the Parkers Range area in the Western Australian Goldfields. P. angustiflora var. burracoppinensis is morphologically readily separable from the Western form of P. angustiflora and should be […]

Lorna B. Ngugi (Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science). Tetramolopium ornans Ngugi (Asteraceae), a new species from the Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia. Tetramolopium ornans is described as a new species from the Wet Tropics of north Queensland. It is distinguished from the related T. vagans Pedley by the presence of sparse hairs on cypselae and longer leaves with

Barbara Azevedo de Oliveira (The University of Queensland); Rod Fensham (The University of Queensland, Queensland Herbarium); Lyn Cook (The University of Queensland). Acacia cambagei R.T. Baker and A. georginae Bailey are dominant woody species found in the Australian arid zone, spanning from Queensland to the Northern Territory and into the north of South Australia. These species, commonly known

Amelia-Grace Boxshall (University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences); Joanne Birch (University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences); Jerry Cooper (Manaaki Whenua); Teresa Lebel (State Herbarium of South Australia). Agaricus is a large basidiomycete genus estimated to contain >500 species globally. However, Australasian Agaricus remain underrepresented in taxonomic revisions of the genus and their diversity remains incompletely understood. Until recently, only