October 2007 - Corymbia cadophora subsp. polychroma (Myrtaceae): a new subspecies from the east Kimberley region.

The description of Corymbia cadophora subsp. polychroma (Myrtaceae): a new subspecies from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia by Russell Barrett (an ecologia sub-consultant botanist) has been published. This new subspecies is only known from a single location where it grows on sandstone adjacent to a banded ironstone deposit on the western side of the Ragged Range. A specimen of C. cadophora was collected during flora surveys of a banded ironstone deposit in the Ragged Range by ecologia Botanist Conrad Slee in August 2004. The material, however, was infertile, so while recognised as a range extension for the species, it could not be placed in either subspecies. Further surveys by ecologia staff Belinda Barnett and Myles Menz and Russell in January and February 2005 located fertile material which could not be easily matched with either subspecies recognised by Hill and Johnson (1995). Further fruiting material was collected in July 2006. Morphological assessment of this material suggested that these collections represented a distinct taxon.

A copy of the paper is here