Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Eremophila caerulea

Scrophulariaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Scrophulariaceae(fam.)
Eremophila(gen.)
caerulea(sp.)

Eremophila caerulea (S.Moore) Diels

, legitimate

, scientific

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (14 February 1905), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

:

542

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pholidia caerulea S.Moore

legitimate

Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1975), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 4

:

632

[secondary reference]

Grieve, B.J. in Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1982), Supplement.

How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia

:

29

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eremophila merrallii F.Muell.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

152

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eremophila merrallii F.Muell.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue

:

333

[secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera

:

256-258

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pholidia caerulea S.Moore

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

Etymology: "Latin caerulea, deep blue."

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera

:

260

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eremophila clavata Chinnock legitimate by

Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1975), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 4

: 632