Pilbara, Cracraft 1991

Ebach, Malte C., Murphy, Daniel J., González-Orozco, Carlos E. & Miller, Joseph T., 2015, A revised area taxonomy of phytogeographical regions within the Australian Bioregionalisation Atlas, Phytotaxa 208 (4), pp. 261-277 : 272

Sub-region PILBARA Cracraft 1991

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Pilbara Cracraft 1991: 214

Pilbara Crisp et al. 1995: 460

Emended diagnosis. The area covering the Hamersley Ranges.

Remarks. Cracraft (1991) correctly diagnosed the Pilbara as the “uplands of the Pilbara (Hamersley Plateau) ” ( Cracraft 1991: 214) However, Cracraft included some parts of the Great Sandy desert bounded “to the west by the Gibson Desert, and to the south by lowlands” ( Cracraft 1991: 214). The embedded diagnosis clarifies that the sub-region is restricted to the area covering the Hamersley Ranges.

Figures

FIGURE 3. The twenty ABA phytogeographical sub-regions for Australia’s land plants (excluding Southern New Guinea). The areas are an approximation of the 100km2 grid cells in González-Orozco, Ebach et al. (2014). As these areas are defined on a numerical approach (like that in the IBRA classification), their monophyly is still unknown. Southern New Guinea is not figured.