Two acacia species have been rediscovered in the central Wheatbelt, one of which had not been sighted since it was first collected 160 years ago. Acacia leptoneura was previously only known from a specimen collected by James Drummond between 1837–48.
More than 100 new species of plants have been recorded in the Kimberley as scientists begin to discover more about the relatively unknown botanical life of the far reaches of north-west WA.