A revision of Pultenaea (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). 4. Species occurring in Western Australia
L. A. Orthia A B D , R. P. J. de Kok B C and M. D. Crisp AA School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
B Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
C Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AD, UK.
D Corresponding author. Email: lindy.orthia@anu.edu.au
Australian Systematic Botany 18(2) 149-206 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04029
Submitted: 29 July 2004 Accepted: 13 January 2005 Published: 20 May 2005
Abstract
Twenty-five species of Pultenaea endemic to Western Australia are revised at and below species level. Three species (P. daena Orthia & Chappill, P. indira Orthia & Crisp, P. wudjariensis Orthia), three subspecies (P. calycina subsp. proxena Orthia & Chappill, P. indira subsp. monstrosita Orthia, P. indira subsp. pudoides Orthia) and two informal taxa [P. ericifolia ‘southern’ (Orthia 39), P. sp. Mt Lesueur (Beard 7827)] are described for the first time. The status of all varieties of P. verruculosa is changed: P. verruculosa var. brachyphylla (Turcz.) Benth. is reinstated at species level, P. verruculosa Turcz. var. verruculosa and P. verruculosa var. pilosa Benth. are placed in synonymy of Pultenaea verruculosa Turcz., and P. verruculosa var. recurva Benth. is found to be a nomen dubium. Three names in common usage are found to be illegitimate: P. conferta Benth. [now P. purpurea (Turcz.) Crisp & Orthia], P. obcordata (R.Br.) Benth. (now P. quaerita Orthia) and P. drummondii Meisn. (older name P. brachytropis Benth. reinstated). The Pultenaea species occurring in both western and eastern Australia are discussed and addenda made to the treatments previously published by de Kok and West (2003, 2004). The status of P. vestita R.Br. and P. juniperina Labill. as naturally occurring WA species is questioned.
Acknowledgments
This project was made possible by generous grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study and the Australian Research Council. The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and the Australian National University provided additional funding for laboratory work. The ANU also provided a scholarship that supported LAO. We thank Sophia Bickford for generating the distribution maps used here, Lyn Cook for her assistance with phylogenetic work, Tony Orchard for his advice on nomenclature issues and for his wonderful illustrations for Fig. 2, and Mike Hislop for his continued interest and support in Perth. We also thank Tom Hartley, Terena Lally, Jenny Chappill, Judy West and an anonymous referee for reading the manuscript and giving invaluable feedback.
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