Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila dichroantha
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
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • 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."