Talk:Eremophila delisseri

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Gderrin in topic Common name

Common name

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This article originally included the common name "frontage poverty bush". None of the references listed appear to include this name. Eremophila malacoides is more usually called frontage poverty bush.[1][2] I am unable to find the origin of "frontage". Strange that a species named in 1866 apparently has no common name whereas one described in 2007 does. There is a listing in FloraBase giving "frontage poverty bush" as a common name for E. delisseri but the listing is not current.[3] Gderrin (talk) 23:24, 14 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Agree.The common name was obtained from a FloraBase reference in 2007[1], before they listed it as an excluded (misapplied) name based on Chinnock's 2007 work [2].--Melburnian (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
regardless of chinnocks work and what that may or not solve, there are too many eremophilas with poverty bush as part of an ascribed or mis-applied name, there is a good argument to have a separate page that lists emu and poverty bush separate from the list of eremohpilas (if it was a sortable table, that would be different). I also realise that Melburnian created the appropriate Emu and Poverty disambig articles in 2008 (a few weeks ago...) which were prescient and well placed items JarrahTree 00:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Possibly - but maybe we shouldn't worry too much about common names. The problem also exists with other genera/species (eg. mountain ash, swamp gum, stringy gum, Tasmanian oak for Eucalyptus regnans). It would be good to have each eremophila with a different common name (or names) tho'. So far, so good (I think?). Gderrin (talk) 01:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Chinnock, R.J. (Bob) (2007). Eremophila and allied genera : a monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae (1st ed.). Dural, NSW: Rosenberg. pp. 461–462. ISBN 9781877058165.
  2. ^ Brown, Andrew; Buirchell, Bevan (2011). A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia (1st ed.). Hamilton Hill, W.A.: Simon Nevill Publications. p. 181. ISBN 9780980348156.
  3. ^ "Eremophila delisseri". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.