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Showing Spermacoce occidentalis
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- occidentalis(sp.)
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Type: Broome, adjacent to the airport, Western Australia, 3.vi.1986, J.R. Clarkson 6559; holo: BRI; iso: DNA, K, MBA, PERTH, QRS.
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APC Dist.: WA, NT
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Etymology: Latin occidentalis (west, western), because in the NT this species only occurs near the Western Australian border, and in Western Australia it occurs further to the west than any other Spermacoce species.