Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eremophila malacoides
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Eremophila malacoides Chinnock , legitimate, scientific
Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 461-462, Fig. 230, Map 225 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "18.3 km NE of the Lake Mason turnoff on the Sandstone–Wiluna road, 18.ix.1986, R.J.Chinnock 7227 (holotype: AD; isotypes: K, MEL, PERTH)."
nomenclatural synonym: Eremophila malacoides Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. nom. inval. misapplication: Eremophila delisseri F.Muell. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 120 misapplication: Eremophila delisseri F.Muell. legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 98 misapplication: Eremophila delisseri F.Muell. legitimate by Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1982), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 4: 636 misapplication: Eremophila delisseri F.Muell. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 152 misapplication: Eremophila delisseri F.Muell. legitimate by Mitchell, A.A. & Wilcox, D.G. (1988), Arid shrubland plants of Western Australia: 150
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "Greek malae-, soft, oides, form of; referring to the very soft hairs on the vegetative and floral parts."
Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 181 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "malacoides (soft form), refers to the distinctive soft hairy leaves and stems."