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Showing Petrophile merrallii
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Proteanae(superordo)
- Proteales(ordo)
- Proteaceae(fam.)
- Petrophile(gen.)
- merrallii(sp.)
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Type: 12 miles [c. 19 km] E of Southern Cross, at Summer Tank, W.A., 9 Sept. 1968, M.E.Phillips CBG 028011; holo: CBG; iso: NSW.
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APC Dist.: WA
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Etymology: "The specific epithet honours Edwin Merrall (c. 1844-1913), a gold miner who collected this species near Southern Cross in 1890 and again near Parker's Range in 1892."