Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila dichroantha 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 35(4) :
541, fig. 61 G-H
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"in distr. Eyre pr. Philipps River orientem versus in eucalyptetis lapidoso-lutosis flor. m. Oct. (D. 4840)."
Kraenzlin, F.W.L. in Kraenzlin, F.W.L. (ed.) (1929) , Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Beihefte B. 54 :
66
[basionym]
basionym of:
Pholidia dichroantha ( Diels) Kraenzl.
legitimate
Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. in Kraenzlin, F.W.L. (ed.) (20 May 1929) , Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Beihefte 54 :
71
[basionym]
basionym of:
Pholidia elachantha ( Diels) Kraenzl.
legitimate
Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1982) , How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 4 :
640
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bale-hook Eremophila
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
152
[secondary reference]
Chinnock, R.J. (2007) , Eremophila and allied genera :
211-213, Fig. 105, Map 75
APC
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, s.dat., L. Diels 4840 (B, destroyed; PERTH, lectotype here designated).
nomenclatural synonym:
Pholidia dichroantha ( Diels) Kraenzl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eremophila exiliflora F.Muell.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Bondtia exiliflora Kuntze
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Bontia exiliflora ( F.Muell.) Kuntze
legitimate
Etymology:
"Greek dichros, forked or possibly two-flowered; anthos, flower; alluding to the flowers often being paired or to their being lilac or purple outside but white in the tube."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011) , A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia :
88
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bale Hook Eremophila
[n/a]
Etymology:
"dichroantha (forked, two-flower) may refer to its often paired flowers."