Mueller, F.J.H. von (1884), Brief record of a new Scaevola. The Victorian Naturalist 1(12): 122-123 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In the vicinity of Israelite-Bay, discovered by Miss S.J.Brooke".

• Etymology: (not specified.)
• Comment: Although Mueller spelled the species epithet as "brookeana" and cited original material as having been collected by "Miss S.J. Brooke", the collector was Sarah T. Brooks (1850–1928). Mueller presumably intended to honour the collector in naming the species and later used the spelling brooksiana in Sec. Syst. Census Austral. Pl. 148 (1889). The epithet is thus corrected here following ICN Art. 60.1 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 3 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 148 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 378 [basionym]

basionym of: Lobelia brooksiana (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1959), Orthography of certain specific epithets. Muelleria 1(2): 91 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Scaevola brookeana F.Muell. orth. var.

• Text: "This West Australian shrub was named in honour of its discoverer, Miss Sarah T. C. Brooks, who died at Norseman Hospital in September, 1928; but Mueller invariably mis-spelt the surname as 'Brooke'."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 159 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 132 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 116, Map 137 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia brooksiana (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 263 [secondary reference]

common name: Heart-leaved Fanflower [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Scaevola brookeana F.Muell. orth. var. orthographic variant: Scaevola brookiana Hopper, S.J.van Leeuwen, A.P.Br. & S.J.Patrick orth. var. orthographic variant: Scaevola brookseana B.Archer & Maroske orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia brooksiana (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia brookeana Carolin orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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