Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila ionantha
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila ionantha 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): 540, fig. 61 C-D [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Loco ignoto (DRUMMOND in Hb. Kew.); in distr. Coolgardie pr. Gibraltar flor. m. Sept. (SPENCER MOORE); pr. Kalgoorlie in fruticetis lutoso-arenosis flor. m. Novembr. (E. PRITZEL Pl. Austr. occ. 64, D. 1683) pr. Coolgardie in fruticetis lutoso-arenosis flor. Oct. (D. 5839)."
Kraenzlin, F.W.L. in Kraenzlin, F.W.L. (ed.) (1929), Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Beihefte B. 54: 60 [basionym]
basionym of: Pholidia ionantha (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: 635 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 153 [secondary reference]
Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 240-242, Fig. 118, Map 91 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Yilgarn and Coolgardie Goldfields, Western Australia, Nov. 1900, E. Pritzel 64 (HBG, lectotype here designated; isolectotypes: AD, BM, BR, G, K, L, M, MO, NSW, PR, S, US, W).
taxonomic synonym: Eremophila ionantha var. brevifolia Diels legitimate
  • Etymology: "Greek ion-, violet, -anthos, flower; referring to the colour of the flowers."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 153 [secondary reference]
common name: Violet-flowered Eremophila [n/a]
  • Etymology: "ionantha (violet flower), refers to the corolla colour."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Eremophila ionantha Diels var. ionantha legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pholidia ionantha (Diels) Kraenzl. var. ionantha legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pholidia ionantha (Diels) Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eremophila ionantha var. brevifolia Diels legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pholidia ionantha var. brevifolia (Diels) Kraenzl. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA