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Showing Eremophila acrida
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Asteranae(superordo)
- Lamiales(ordo)
- Scrophulariaceae(fam.)
- Eremophila(gen.)
- acrida(sp.)
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Type: Woodford River, 16 miles (25.6 km) W of Aileron, Northern Territory, 18.v.1956, G. Chippendale s.n. (holotype: NT 2086 [sic; holotype is actually NT 2085 (P.C.Jobson, pers. comm. (2014)]; isotypes: AD, CANB, MEL).
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Etymology: "Latinised acrida, sharply unpleasant-smelling."
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APC Dist.: NT, Qld
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Text: “Eremophila acrida: acridus is not a Latin word. It should have been acer.”