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Showing Spermacoce erectiloba
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Asteranae(superordo)
- Gentianales(ordo)
- Rubiaceae(fam.)
- Spermacoce(gen.)
- erectiloba(sp.)
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Type: East Alligator Ranger Station, Kakadu National Park, NT, 8.iii.1999, R.K. Harwood 606; holo: DNA; iso: BR, BRI, CANB, K, MEL, PERTH.
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APC Dist.: NT
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Etymology: Latin erectus (erect) and -lobus (lobe), because the lobes remain erect after the corolla opens, unlike the spreading divided part of the lobes of the other three species with divided lobes.