Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Atriplex yeelirrie
Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Atriplex yeelirrie K.A.Sheph. & K.R.Thiele , legitimate, scientific
Shepherd, K.A., Thiele, K.R., Sampson, J., Coates, D. & Byrne, M. (23 December 2015), A rare, new species of Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae) comprising two genetically distinct but morphologically cryptic populations in arid Western Australia: implications for taxonomy and conservation. Australian Systematic Botany 28(4): 240-243 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Yeelirrie Station near Albion Downs Station, south-east Snakebore population, Project Area A, Western Australia, 16 April 2010, K.A. Shepherd, C. Ringrose & B. Graham KS 1406 (Holotype: PERTH 08616493; isotypes: CANB, K, MEL)."
taxonomic synonym: Atriplex sp. Yeelirrie Station (L.Trotter & A.Douglas LCH 25025) WA Herbarium [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "The epithet is derived from Yeelirrie Station, the pastoral lease on which the species is found, and is used as a noun in apposition."
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016. Nuytsia 28: 124 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Atriplex sp. Yeelirrie Station (L.Trotter & A.Douglas LCH 25025) WA Herbarium [n/a]