Senior Research Scientist at the Western Australian Herbarium.

Juliet Wege undertakes taxonomic research on a range of plant groups in Western Australia, with a focus on new taxa that are rare or poorly known and/or occur in areas vulnerable to future mining activities. Her main research interest is the taxonomy and phylogeny of triggerplant genus Stylidium, which has a centre of diversity in south-west Western Australia. She provides specialist identification of Stylidium specimens and photographs along with expert scientific advice on Stylidium conservation in Western Australia. Juliet is a member of the Nuytsia Editorial Advisory Committee.

• Stylidium taxonomy and phylogeny.
• Identification of Stylidium specimens and photographs.
• Taxonomic assessment and description of new Western Australian plant taxa.
• Botanical nomenclature.
• Botanical history.
• Plant anatomy.
• Scientific editing.

QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy, Botany Department, The University of Western Australia, 1999.

Bachelor of Science (Botany/Geography), First Class Honours, The University of Western Australia, 1992.

RECENT POSITIONS HELD

Senior Research Scientist (2006-). Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation.

Australian Botanical Liaison Officer (2005-2006). Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom; funded by the Australian Biological Resources Study.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist (2002-2005). Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Conservation and Land Management; funded by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS).

Technical Officer (2001-2002). Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Conservation and Land Management.

Anglo-Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2000-2001). Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom; funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Saving our Species Biodiversity Conservation Initiative: Resolution and description of new plant species in Western Australia, particularly those of conservation significance and/or occurring in areas subject to mining interest.

Systematics of Stylidiaceae, including descriptions of new species from Western Australia, the Flora of Australia revision of Stylidium, the Flora of South Australia revision of Stylidiaceae, and an interactive, multi-access key to triggerplant identification.

(23 items)

2008

Wege JA (2008). Stylidium perplexum (Stylidiaceae): a remarkable new triggerplant from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 18, pp. 285–289

2007

Wege JA (2007). New species and new circumscriptions in Stylidium (Stylidiaceae). Nuytsia 17, pp. 415–432

Wege JA (2007). Allocasuarina hystricosa (Casuarinaceae) : a new species from south-west Western Australia, with notes on related species. Nuytsia 17, pp. 403–414

Wege JA (2007). (1782) Proposal to conserve the name Stylidium affine against S. drummondii (Stylidiaceae). Taxon 56, pp. 613–614

Wege JA (2007). Donatiaceae. In Flowering Plant Families of the World (by VH Heywood, RK Brummitt, A Culham et al.). Firefly, London. p. 132

Wege JA (2007). Stylidiaceae: triggerplant and stylewort family. In Flowering Plant Families of the World (by VH Heywood, RK Brummitt, A Culham et al.). Firefly, London. pp. 312–313

Wege JA, Coates DJ (2007). Observations on the rare triggerplant Stylidium coroniforme (Stylidiaceae) and the description of two allied taxa of conservation concern. Nuytsia 17, pp. 433–444

Wege JA, Keighery GJ, Keighery BJ (2007). Two new triggerplants (Stylidium: Stylidiaceae) from the eastern margin of the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia. Nuytsia 17, pp. 445–451

Wege JA, Lepschi BJ (2007). A new species of Arabidella (Brassicaceae) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 17, pp. 453–458

Wege JA, Shepherd KA, Butcher R (2007). Special edition of Nuytsia launched. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 133, pp. 42–43

Wege JA, Shepherd KA, Butcher R (2007). Preface. Nuytsia 17, p. i

Wege JA, Shepherd KA, Butcher R (eds) (2007). Nuytsia. Volume 17 (2007). Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. pp. 1–492

2006

Wege J (2006). Taxonomic observations on the Stylidium leptocalyx complex (Stylidiaceae). Nuytsia 16, pp. 221–231

Wege J (2006). Reinstatement of Stylidium rigidulum (Stylidiaceae), with notes on the morphologically allied S. kalbarriense. Nuytsia 16, pp. 199–206

Wege J (2006). Stylidium hymenocraspedum, (Stylidiaceae): a new species for Western Australia, and the lectotypification of S. maitlandianum. Nuytsia 16, pp. 247–253

Wege J (2006). Stylidium diplotrichum (Stylidiaceae): a new scale-leaved trigger plant from south-west Western Australia, with taxonomic and anatomical notes on allied species. Nuytsia 16, pp. 183–197

Wege J (2006). Taxonomic notes on the locket trigger plants from Stylidium subgenus Tolypangium section Repentes. Nuytsia 16, pp. 207–220

Wege J (2006). Taxonomic observations on Stylidium spathulatum (Stylidiaceae), with the description of three allied species from section Saxifragoidea. Nuytsia 16, pp. 233–246

2005

Wege J (2005). Blooming spectacular. Landscope 21(1), pp. 39–44

Wege J, George A, Gathe J, Lemson K, Napier K (eds) (2005). Matthew Flinders and his scientific gentlemen: the expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05. Western Australian Museum, Welshpool. 184 p.

Wege JA (2005). Stylidium validum (Stylidiaceae): a new trigger plant from southern Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 88, pp. 13–16

2004

Wege J (2004). Chromosome records for five trigger plants (Stylidium: Stylidiaceae) from northern Australia. Austrobaileya 6, pp. 957–959

2001

Wege JA (2001). Corolla venation on Stylidiaceae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 84, pp. 97–101

2007

Wege, J.A. (2007). “Stylidiaceae” and “Donatiaceae” in V.H. Heywood et al. (eds), Flowering Plant Families of the World. 2nd Ed. (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: UK.)

2002

Wagstaff, S.J. & Wege, J.A. Patterns of diversification in New Zealand Stylidiaceae. American Journal of Botany 89(5), pp. 865-874.

2001

Wege, J.A. (2001). Scape anatomy in Stylidium (Stylidiaceae). Kew Bulletin 56, pp. 955-963.