Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(15): 139 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In eremo ad flumen Nommoy. Edw. Bowman."

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named for the collector of the type material, Edward Macarthur Bowman (1826–1872)]

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 18 [secondary reference]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 4 [secondary reference]

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

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 238 [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Bush [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 375 [secondary reference]

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

Smith, L.S. (1975), The Genus Eremophila (Myoporaceae) in Queensland with notes on the Genus Myoporum. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 19: 23-24 [secondary reference]

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

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

Chinnock, R.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Myoporaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 544, pl.27 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver Turkeybush [n/a]

Chinnock, R.J. (11 June 1992), New taxa and combinations in the Myoporaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 15(1): 78 [secondary reference]

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

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 142 (map) [secondary reference]

common name: Silver Turkey Bush [n/a] common name: Flannel Bush [n/a]

Chinnock, R.J. (2007), Eremophila and allied genera: 487 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Bondtia bowmannii Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Bontia bowmanii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate common name: turkey bush [n/a] common name: flannel bush [n/a] common name: Bowman's poverty bush [n/a] common name: Silver turkey-bush [n/a]

• Etymology: "After Edward Bowman who made the original collection."

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

orthographic variant: Eremophila bowmani F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Bondtia bowmannii Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Bontia bowmanii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Eremophila bowmanii and E. latrobei are recorded from Qld (see P.D.Bostock & A.E.Holland, Census Queensland Fl. 118 (2007)).
• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW

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