Category talk:Flora of Western Australia

earlier comments
This list need a lot of work

In 1802 Robert Brown himself collected 500 specimens of flora from Western Australia quote take from Orchids of Western Australia Gnangarra 03:09, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Cumbersome
The list currently has of 1,700 entries. Would fellow contributors be happy to start breaking down to the genera level (eg. Acacias of Western Australia, Eucalypts of Western Australia etc...) and keeping Flora of Western Australia as a parent category? Hughesdarren (talk) 01:20, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Given the lack of response I've started placing Acacias into a new category - Acacias of Western Australia and taking entries from this category as well as Eudicots of Western Australia and Rosids of Western Australia. Regards Hughesdarren (talk) 03:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm now thinking of moving all the Allocasuarinas, Corymbias and other larger genera to their own category. Regards. Hughesdarren (talk) 23:58, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I assume you mean creating something like Category:Allocasuarinas of Western Australia? It's unusual, but could be made to work. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:10, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Flora incorrectly described as endemic to WA
There are a number of articles which describe a species as endemic to Western Australia when they actually have a much broader range, and when this isn't supported by the souce (generally WA Florabase). This is something I've noticed as someone interested in Victorian flora — most recently with Patersonia occidentalis, which is also native to Victoria. WA Florabase only records observations in WA so I suspect somewhere along the line, someone's misinterpreted this as evidence of WA-only range. WA Florabase actually doesn't seem to record whether something is endemic, just whether it's native or introduced, or at least doesn't record it anywhere obvious, so it should be assumed that the WA endemic status of an organism needs to be re-checked if WA Florabase is the source for that claim. I recommend checking the ALA and (if needed) other state/national floras before making a firm claim about the limits of a plant's native range. Happy to correct these as and when I see them, but please keep an eye out for this issue. PeoplesFootscray (talk) 07:24, 3 November 2021 (UTC)