New species and lectotypifications of some reticulate-nerved Tephrosia (Fabaceae) from north-west Australia and the genus Paratephrosia re-evaluated

Abstract

Cowie. I.D. New species and lectotypifications of some reticulate-nerved Tephrosia Pers. (Fabaceae) from north-west Australia and the genus Paratephrosia re-evaluated. Nuytsia 15(2):163-186 (2004). Eight new species of reticulate-nerved Tephrosia are described from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia and the Northern Territory (T. andrewii Cowie, Tephrosia bifacialis Cowie, T. carriemichelliae Cowie, T. ephippioides Cowie, T. gyropoda Cowie, T. humifusa Cowie, T. procera Cowie, and T. valleculata Cowie). Paratephrosia is reduced to synonymy under Tephrosia and a new name, Tephrosia lasiochlaena Cowie, is published for P. lanata. Lectotypifications are provided for six reticulate-nerved and allied taxa of Tephrosia (T.

Two new, orange-flowered Tephrosia (Fabaceae: Millettieae) species from the Kimberley region, in Western Australia’s monsoon tropics

“…Etymology. Named for Tephrosia specialist Ian Donald Cowie (1956-), Chief Botanist at the Northern Territory Herbarium, who was the first to recognise this species as distinct, during his revision of the reticulate-nerved taxa in northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory (see Cowie 2004).…”

“…Since Les Pedley (dec.) commenced his revision of Tephrosia in Australia in the 1970s, 11 new taxa have been formally described from Western Australia (Pedley 1977;Maconochie 1980;Cowie 2004;Butcher & Hurter 2012;Butcher 2018aButcher , 2018bButcher , 2020. Of these, four extend across the Australian Monsoon Tropics (AMT) (sensu Bowman et al 2010) from the Kimberley region (i.e.…”

“…In this paper, two new, orange-flowered species of Tephrosia from Western Australia are described, both known only from the Kimberley region. The first belongs in a group of reticulate-nerved species treated by Cowie (2004), with sterile material recognised as being different from the closely allied species T. bifacialis Cowie in that publication and in his specimen determinations from 2011 (T. sp. aff.…”

Making it official—formal description of two orange-flowered Tephrosia (Fabaceae: Millettieae) species from north-west Western Australia

“…Following Bentham's (1864) treatment of Tephrosia Pers. in Australia, in which 18 new taxa were described for Western Australia, taxonomic endeavours in this State progressed ad hoc over the following 62 years (Mueller 1879(Mueller , 1880(Mueller , 1883Slcan 1905;Domin 1912;Ewart & Morrison 1913;Fitzgerald 1918;Gardner 1923;Domin 1926) before Les Pedley commenced a more comprehensive investigation in the 1970s, laying the foundation for a further suite of regionally-focussed, revisionary publications (Pedley 1977;Maconochie 1980;Wheeler 1992;Cowie 2004;Butcher 2012;Butcher & Hurter 2012;Pedley 2014;Butcher et al 2017;Butcher 2018).…”