Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila spinescens
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila spinescens 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): 265, fig. 4 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "R.J. Chinnock 4683, 24.4 km NE of Carnegie Homestead 16.ix.1979, fl.fr. (holotype: AD, Lowermost specimen; isotypes: AD, CANB, K, MEL, NT, PERTH, US)."
Chinnock, R.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Myoporaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 345 [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: 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: 393-395, Fig. 199, Map 186 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "Latin spinescens, spinescent; referring to the branch tips."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 262 [secondary reference]
common name: Spiny Poverty Bush [n/a]
  • Etymology: "spinescens (spinescent), refers to the somewhat spiny habit of the plant."