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Showing Spermacoce elaiosoma
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- elaiosoma(sp.)
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Type: South of Nabarlek, NT, 27.iii.20002, R.K. Harwood 1156; holo: DNA; iso: BR, BRI, CANB, K, MEL, PERTH, SI.
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APC Dist.: NT
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Etymology: "Latin elaiosoma (elaiosome, oily appendage of seeds), as the persistent obturator on the seed resembles (and likely is) an elaiosome, something completely absent from the seed of S. laevigata, of which this taxon was described previously as a variety."