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Showing Heliotropium tytoides
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Type: "Australia. Queensland: between Wernadinga and Inverleigh on the northern route from Burketown to Normanton, 3 May 1974, Pullen 9041 (CANB, holo.)."
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APC Dist.: Qld
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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)."