SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA Diels 1906

SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA Diels 1906

Available Names: 
Southwest Australia Diels 1906: 40.
Additional synonomies: 
(Southwest Australia Diels: 1906: 40), (Southwest Crisp et al. 1995: 460), (Southwest Australian Floristic Region Hopper & Gioia 2004: 633), (South-West WA Interzone Jarrah Forest Ladiges et al. 2011: 32), (South-West WA Geraldton Sandplains Ladiges et al. 2005: 1913), (South-West WA Interzone Wheatbelt Ladiges et al. 2011: 32), (Goldfields Ladiges et al. 2011: 32), Southwest Australia Ebach et al. 2013: 324
Area Taxonomy: 
TERRESTRIAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
Sub-Realm: 
AUSTRALIA (de Candolle 1820)
Region: 
SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA Diels 1906
Diagnosis: 
Triangular crescent shaped area bounded by the western Australian coastline between Hill and Murchison Rivers in the north to the Phillips River and Israelite Bay in the southwest.
Type-locality: 
Mount Magog, Stirling Range National Park, WA, Australia, 34°23'39.00"S 117°56'48.00"E.

The Southwest region has retained similar boundaries since it was first described by Tate in 1889
(as Autochthonian). Several revisions by Diels (1906), Gardener (1944), Burbidge (1960) and Ladiges et al. (2011),
have seen the region increase in size. While Hopper (1979) extensively studied the vegetation and rainfall zones of
southwestern Australia, he did not propose or define an explicit area. Rather Hopper (1979) defers to Diels (1906) and
to several maps of Beard (1975, 1976). Hopper and Gioia (2004) however, have a region very similar to Diels (1906).
Our revision follows the analysis presented by González-Orozco, Ebach et al. (2014), which overlaps in part with that
of Ladiges et al. (2011) South-West WA. Discussion about the composition and species interactions and vegetation
types is discussed extensively in Hopper (1979), Beard (2001), Hopper and Gioia (2004) and Rix et al. (2014).

Map: 
Reference: 
Die Pflanzenwelt von West-Australien südlich des Wendekreises

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