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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Eremophila punctata Chinnock

Reference
J.Adelaide Bot.Gard. 2:263-265 (1980)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, viscid shrub, (0.25-)0.5-1.5(-2) m high. Fl. blue-purple-violet/white, Jul to Oct. Skeletal soils, often stony over laterite, red sand. Undulating plains, rocky situations, breakaways, clay flats.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 March 1997
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Carnegie, Central, Eastern Murchison, Lateritic Plain, Trainor, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Laverton, Meekatharra, Ngaanyatjarraku, Sandstone, Wiluna.