Ostenfeld, C.E.H. (1921), Contributions to West Australian Botany, part III : Additions and notes to the flora of extra-tropical W. Australia. Biologiske meddelelser, Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 3(2): 120-121 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Kalgoorlie (No. 1077; 7. Oct 1914)."

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 528 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 788, Fig. 1119 [secondary reference]

Barlow, B.A. (1971), Cytogeography of the genus Eremophila. Australian Journal of Botany 19(3): 296 [secondary reference]

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: 653, 35 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eremophila maculata var. linearifolia S.Moore legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 152 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 3: 1330 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 593-594 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin decipiens, deceiving, false."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Eremophila denticulata F.Muell. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 789

• APC Comment: W.R.Barker et al., Census South Austral. Vasc. Pl. 5th edn, 129 (2005) list the name "Eremophila decipiens var. decipiens", but this autonym does not exist as there are no varietal names published under Eremophila decipiens.
• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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