A morphometric study of the Olearia phlogopappa species complex from throughout south-eastern Australia has confirmed species boundaries and resolved the infraspecific taxonomy of two species. It has shown O. phlogopappa (Labill.) DC., O. stellulata (Labill.) DC., O. lirata (Sims) Hutch., O. rugosa (F.Muell. ex W.Archer bis) Hutch. and O. brevipedunculata N.G.Walsh to be non-overlapping entities with unique morphological characters. O. stellulata is circumscribed to include only southern and western Tasmanian populations and those from the Otways and Wilsons Promontory in southern Victoria. O. rugosa is restricted to Victoria and a few isolated populations on Flinders Island and northern Tasmania. Four previously noted variants of O. rugosa from Victoria are here described as subspecies, along with the description of a fifth subspecies from northern Tasmania. Infraspecific boundaries of O. phlogopappa are here revised to include nine subspecies, six of which were previously included as varieties, and descriptions are made of three new subspecies. © 2013 CSIRO.
Funding
Funding for this project was provided by the Hansjorg Eicher Research Fund of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society, and the Australian Government BushBlitz PhD Research Fund Supplement. We thank staff at CANB, HO, MEL, BRI and K for loans and access to data, and K, G-DC, FI, MEL and CANB for access to type specimens and providing images for this publication; Tony Orchard for assistance with nomenclature and photographing type specimens; and Wayne Gebert (MEL) for photographing type specimens. We also thank Margy Hawke for access to her Esma Salkin studentship work, Max Bartley for managing living collections at LTU, Patsy Maddern-Wellington (LTB) for preparing specimens, Alex Buchanan and Matt Baker for assistance with locality information, Nick Shaw, Erin Cox, Verity Fyfe, Megan Good, Ann Tolsma, Karina Joy, Sera Cutler, Karen Muscat and James Shannon for assistance with field work, Alison Kellow and Louise Romanin for assistance with preparation of this manuscript.
History
Publication Date
2013-04-12Journal
Australian Systematic BotanyVolume
26Issue
1Pagination
(p. 31-80)Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHINGISSN
1030-1887Rights Statement
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