Ewart, A.J., White, J. & Wood, B. (1911), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 16. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23(2): 291-292, t. LIII, figs 1-3, 7 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Wangering, West Australia, R. Helms, 14/11/91 (Elder exploring expedition). Parker's Range, West Australia, E. Merrall, 1891; L. Deborah, near Mt. Moore, 1889, E. Merrall; Gibralter, West Australia, S. le Moore, Oct. 1895."

taxonomic synonym: Pholidia caerulea S.Moore legitimate

• Comment: The name is attributed to "F. v. M." and the previously unpublished description is also ascribed to him and provided in double quotes. Mueller is thus here accepted as the author following ICN Art. 46.2 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).
• Comment: nom. illeg., nom. superfl., non Eremophila caerulea (S.Moore) Diels (1905).

Grieve, B.J. in Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1982), Supplement. How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 4: 29 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eremophila caerulea (S.Moore) Diels legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 153 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eremophila caerulea (S.Moore) Diels legitimate

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 18, 55, Fig. 113 [secondary reference]

common name: Bruce Rock Eremophila [n/a]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 258 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Lake Deborah near Mt Moore, Western Australia 1889, Edwin Merrall s.n. (MEL 79100, lectotype here designated).

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 258 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eremophila caerulea subsp. merrallii Chinnock legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Eremophila merralli F.Muell. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Eremophila caerulea subsp. merrallii Chinnock legitimate

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