The Western Australian Flora – A Descriptive Catalogue was published by the Wildflower Society of Western Australia, the Western Australian Herbarium

Western Australian Herbarium

The Western Australian Herbarium is the State Herbarium in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It is part of the State government's Department of Environment and Conservation, and has responsibility for the description and documentation of the flora of Western Australia.The Herbarium is...

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CALM, and the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority

Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority

The Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority is a Western Australian Government authority charged with the administration of Kings Park and Bold Park....

of Perth, Western Australia.

At the time of publication in 2000 the number of published vascular plant species recognised had reached 9640 - almost double since the work of Beard in 1969.

The publication of the book was an important stage of the cataloguing of details of flora in Western Australia.

The introduction of the book by Alex Chapman is available as a PDF file, at the external link at FloraBase.

Publication details

• Paczkowska, Grazyna and Alex R. Chapman (2000). The Western Australian Flora : a descriptive catalogue Perth, W.A: Wildflower Society of Western Australia : Western Australian Herbarium: Western Australian Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority ISBN 0646401009 (pbk.)

External links

• http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/publications/descat/ - FloraBase description of the book
• http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/publications/descat/descaterrata - FloraBase errata for the book
• http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/statistics/ - comments about statistics following the book publication
• http://members.ozemail.com.au/~wildflowers/Catalogue.htm - Wildflower society promotion and details of book availability