Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69): 228 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In montibus Rawlinsoni et abhinc montes Barrowi versus; E. Giles."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 104 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 501 [basionym]

basionym of: Bontia elderi (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 526 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 785 [secondary reference]

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

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 259 [secondary reference]

Smith, L.S. (1975), The Genus Eremophila (Myoporaceae) in Queensland with notes on the Genus Myoporum. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 19: 30-31 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Bontia elderi (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Chinnock, R.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Myoporaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 343 [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: 649 [secondary reference]

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: 1339 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 52 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1994), Myoporaceae. Queensland Vascular Plants: Names and Distribution: 196 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1997), Myoporaceae. Queensland Plants: Names and Distribution: 123 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 335 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Myoporaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 118 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 350-352, Fig. 174, Map 156 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: From Barrow Range to Rawlinsons Range, Western Australia, s.dat., E. Giles s.n. (MEL 77660, lectotype here designated; isolectotype: K).

nomenclatural synonym: Bondtia elderi Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Bontia elderi (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA

• Etymology: "After Sir Thomas Elder, a 19th century sponsor of exploration parties."

Henderson, R.J.F. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Myoporaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 118 [secondary reference]

Brown, A. & Buirchell, B. (2011), A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia: 92 [secondary reference]

common name: Aromatic Emu Bush [n/a]

• Etymology: "Named in honour of Sir Thomas Elder who was one of the original partners of Elder Smith & Co. Elder financed several expeditions, including the one made by Ernest Giles to the Rawlinson Range area where the type collection of this species was made."

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

misapplied to: Eremophila acrida Chinnock legitimate by Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1994), Myoporaceae. Queensland Vascular Plants: Names and Distribution: 196

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eremophila acrida Chinnock legitimate by Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1997), Myoporaceae. Queensland Plants: Names and Distribution: 123

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eremophila acrida Chinnock legitimate by Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Myoporaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 118

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eremophila acrida Chinnock legitimate by Henderson, R.J.F. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Myoporaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 118

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