Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Heliotropium tytoides
Boraginaceae Juss.
Heliotropium tytoides Craven , legitimate, scientific
Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 568-569, Fig. 25 (map) [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Australia. Queensland: between Wernadinga and Inverleigh on the northern route from Burketown to Normanton, 3 May 1974, Pullen 9041 (CANB, holo.)."
  • APC Dist.: Qld
  • Etymology: "The mericarps of several species of sect. Orthostachys, when viewed adaxially and with the apex considered as the base, are much like the face of an owl and the specific epithet of this species has been chosen with this in mind (Tyto, a genus of owl; Gr. -eides, like)."
Frohlich, M.W., Thulin, M. & Chase, M.W. (24 February 2020), Ninety-three new combinations in Euploca for species of Heliotropium section Orthostachys (Boraginaceae sensu APG). Phytotaxa 434(1): 19 [basionym]
basionym of: Euploca tytoides (Craven) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase legitimate