Microcorys elatoides (Lamiaceae), a new species from the Coolgardie bioregion of Western Australia

Abstract

The district of Mount Holland, immediately to the north of Forrestania, lies to the east of the Western Australian wheatbelt in the far south-west of the Coolgardie bioregion. Recent botanical surveys associated with a large mining project in this area have led to the recognition of six new plant species, of which Acacia lachnocarpa R.W.Davis & Hislop was recently published (Davis & Hislop 2020). Another, a species from the tribe Westringieae Bartl. (Lamiaceae), is described below as Microcorys elatoides T.C.Wilson & Hislop. That so many new taxa have been discovered in a restricted part of Mount Holland is indicative that the flora in this district remains poorly known.