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Showing Spermacoce brevicilia
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Type: Cox Peninsula, NT, 26.v.2001, R.K. Harwood 1091; holo: DNA; iso: BR, BRI, CANB, K, MEL, PERTH.
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APC Dist.: NT
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Etymology: Latin brevi- (short) and cilium (hair on margin), because the hair-like outgrowths on the margin of the appendages are shorter than those on the appendages of S. calliantha, the species it is most similar to.