Algae revealed are a series of illustrated fact-sheets on the algal flora of the southern Australian coast. These fact-sheets are created by Bob Baldock, Hon. Associate of the State Herbarium, and contain colour photographs of whole plants and magnified views of important parts and easy-to-use identification keys.

This week, 25 new fact sheets were made available online, as well as 35 updated versions of existing fact-sheet. They can be accessed at flora.sa.gov.au/algae_revealed/index.shtml or through the Census of South Australian plants, algae and fungi (flora.sa.gov.au/census.shtml), by clicking on the MORE button.

Ulva rigida

Some years ago, the content of all six volumes of Prof. H.B.S. Womersley’s Marine benthic flora of southern Australia (1984-1998), text and illustrations, have been converted to fact-sheets, which are also available through the Census. Scans of the original books can be downloaded from our publications web-page.

Adonis microcarpa

Updated versions of three chapters of the new, 5th edition of Flora of South Australia were published today, 31 Oct. 2013.  They include additional species, up-dated synonymy and distribution information and new images.

Berberidaceae (version 2) (754 KB)
by J. Kellermann

Loganiaceae (version 2) (1.29 MB)
by B.J. Conn

Ranunculaceae (version 2) (2.68 MB)
by H. Eichler, J. Jeanes & N.G. Walsh

Previous versions of Flora treatments are still available from our Superseded treatments page. The general link to the 5th edition of Flora of South Australia is flora.sa.gov.au/ed5.

Euphrasia amplidens

Today, 24 Oct. 2013, the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens published two scientific papers online.

Euphrasia amplidens (Orobanchaceae), a new and very localised species from western Tasmania (1.35MB)
by W.R. Barker, M. Wapstra & B. French

Notes on Hibbertia subg. Hemistemma (Dilleniaceae) 9. The eastern Australian H. vestita group, including H. pedunculata and H. serpyllifolia (1.69MB)
by H.R. Toelken

19 new species and subspecies from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania are published in these articles.

To access content of all volumes of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens since 1976, please visit the journal web-site at flora.sa.gov.au/jabg.

Caloplaca piscatorica

On 27 June 2013, the online edition of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens published two new taxonomic papers, describing new species of lichens for Australia:

• G. Kantvilas & S.Y. Kondratyuk: New species of Caloplaca (lichenised Ascomycota: Teloschistaceae) from Kangaroo Island.  PDF (1 MB).
• P.M. McCarthy & G. Kantvilas: Two new species of Sarcogyne (lichenised Ascomycota: Acarosporaceae) from central and southern Australia. PDF (808 KB).

Please visit flora.sa.gov.au/jabg to access all available issues of the Journal.

Four updated treatments of plant families of the 5th edition of Flora of South Australia were released on 20 June 2013:

• D.A. Cooke: Centrolepidaceae (version 2). PDF (1.28 MB).
• J.P. Jessop & J.G. Conran: Commelinaceae (version 2). PDF (677 KB).
• N.G. Walsh & J. Kellermann: Papaveraceae (version 2). PDF (645 KB).
• C.J. Brodie: Passifloraceae (version 2). PDF (1.19 MB).

These Flora chapters feature updated text, and new photographs and illustrations.  Previous version of these chapters are still available on our Superseded Flora treatments page.  All available chapters of the new Flora, as well as the Introduction, Glossary and Key to plant families, can be accessed on flora.sa.gov.au/ed5.