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''Triumfetta clementii'' is a shrub species that occurs in the north-west of
Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...
. It has an erect, spreading habit, growing to between 0.15 and 0.6 metres high. Yellow flowers appear between May and October in the species' native range. The taxon was first formally described by Czech botanist
Karel Domin Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician. After gymnasium school studies in Příbram, he studied botany at the Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 190 ...
in 1930 in ''
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'', based on a collection by
Emile Clement Emile Louis Bruno Clement (1844–1928) was a prominent collector of ethnographic artefacts and natural history specimens from northwest Australia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Biography Emile Clement was born in ...
between the Ashburton and De Grey Rivers. Domin gave it the name ''Triumfetta bartramia'' var. ''clementii''. It was promoted to species status in 1997. The
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has not established ''Triumfetta clementii'' as an accepted name.


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7844476 Grewioideae Eudicots of Western Australia Taxa named by Barbara Lynette Rye