Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (14 February 1905), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(4): 540 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in distr. Coolgardie fines meridionales a "Graspatch" septentrionem versus in fruticetis lutoso-arenosis flor. m. Novembr. (D. 5287)."

Kraenzlin, F.W.L. in Kraenzlin, F.W.L. (ed.) (1929), Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Beihefte B. 54: 61 [basionym]

basionym of: Pholidia ionantha var. brevifolia (Diels) Kraenzl. legitimate

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: 635 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 241 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: Grasspatch, Nov., L. Diels 5287 (B, destroyed); ca 125 km N of Esperance (near Lake Gilmore), 2.xii.1968, A.M. Ashby 2786 (AD, neotype here designated; PERTH, isoneotype).

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 240 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eremophila ionantha Diels legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Eremophila ionantha Diels legitimate

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