Botanist Ryonen Butcher at the Western Australian Herbarium has named two new species in the widespread northern and central Australian pea genus Tephrosia, in a paper in the journal Nuytsia.
Tephrosia is a common and important genus with around 140 species in Australia, nearly half of which have not yet been named! This paper is a small step towards a complete taxonomic revision of the genus in Australia.
Both species have been known for many years, but without formal names; they were first recognised as new species by the late botanist Les Pedley at the Queensland Herbarium.
