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Showing Heliotropium microsalsoloides
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Type: "Australia, Western Australia, King Sound, Sunday Island, at site of abandoned mission station, 2 June 1993, Craven & Stewart 9271 (holotype: CANB; isotypes: A, AD, B, DNA, E, G, K, L, M, MEL, P, PERTH, UC, US, W."
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APC Dist.: WA
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Etymology: "The specific epithet is derived from the Greek mikros, small, little and -eides, like, resembling and Salsola, a genus of Chenopodiaceae, as the plant superficially resembles a dwarf version of the widespread S. tragus L."