Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila spectabilis
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila spectabilis C.A.Gardner , legitimate, scientific
Gardner, C.A. (1943), Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XI. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 194 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Hab. in distr. Austin a Meekatharra 60 km. septentrionem versus, in fruticetis apertis, in lutoso lapidosis, flor. m. July. Gardner 2328 (Typus)."
Barlow, B.A. (1971), Cytogeography of the genus Eremophila. Australian Journal of Botany 19(3): 296 [secondary reference]
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: 644 [secondary reference]
common name: Showy Eremophila [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 153 [secondary reference]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 342 [secondary reference]
Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 332 APC [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: 30 ml (48 km) N of Meekatharra, 17.vii.1931, C.A. Gardner 2328 (PERTH, lectotype here designated; isolectotype: K).
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "Latin speectabilis, spectacular, remarkable."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 260 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "spectabilis (spectacular), refers to the large, spectacular flowers."