Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila falcata
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila falcata Chinnock , legitimate, scientific
Chinnock, R.J. (22 December 1980), Five new species of Eremophila (Myoporaceae) from Western Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 2(4): 259, fig. 1 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "R.J. Chinnock 4807, 19.3 km SW of Mt Vernon, 24.ix.1979, fl.fr. (holotype: AD; isotypes: CANB, PERTH)."
  • APC Dist.: WA
Chinnock, R.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Myoporaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 342 [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 Edn. 2, 4: 30 [secondary reference]
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: 222-224, Fig. 110, Map 82 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin falcata, curved like a sickle; referring to the leaf shape."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 97 [secondary reference]
common name: Sickle-leafed Eremophila [n/a]
  • Etymology: "falcata (curved like a sickle), refers to the prominently curved leaves."