Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Spermacoce trichosiphonia
Rubiaceae Juss.
Spermacoce trichosiphonia Harwood , legitimate, scientific
Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 362-363, Fig 33 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Gunlom Road, Kakadu National Park, NT, 3.iv.2001, R.K. Harwood 1075; holo: DNA; iso: BR, SI.
  • APC Dist.: NT
  • Etymology: Greek tricho- (hairy or hair-like), and siphonius (relating to a tube or pipe), because of the conspicuous hairs on the outside of the corolla tube.