A new species that’s worth its salt: Verticordia elizabethiae (Myrtaceae: chamelaucieae), a salt-tolerant rarity from semi-arid Western Australia

Rye, Barbara L.;Barrett, Matt

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[Extract:] When Alex George named Verticordia halophila A.S.George, a Featherflower associated with saline environments in the Coorow area, he noted that it was unusual for species of Verticordia DC. s. lat. to occur in this type of habitat (George 1991: 328). The new species described below also grows near salt lakes but occurs more than 200 km further inland than V. halophila. It was first collected in 1926 from a salt lake near Southern Cross by Charles Gardner, who identified it as V. pennigera Endl. Gardner’s specimen remained the only collection until 1990, when three further collections were made. Elizabeth George treated the new taxon as a disjunct ‘eastern’ or ‘inland’ variant of V. halophila, noting that it differed from the western variant in being ‘more rigid but lower, spreading to 40–45 cm wide’ and in flowering more prolifically (George & Pieroni 2002: 318).

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