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The name of a town on the coast of Queensland, Australia, used attrib. in Townsville lucerne, stylo [abbrev. Stylosanthes (see below and stylo-)] to designate an annual or perennial leguminous plant with trifoliate leaves, Stylosanthes humilis, now used as a pasture plant in northern Australia and other tropical regions.
1937Jrnl. Council Sci. & Industr. Res. (Australia) X. 201 The so-called wild or Townsville lucerne..was introduced accidentally into north Queensland. 1968Times 23 Jan. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiv/4 Several decades ago a plant, now called Townsville lucerne, drifted ashore from a South American ship at the port of Townsville and took root. 1977A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 402 Stylosanthes humilis was known as Townsville lucerne until about 1968–9 when the Queensland Herbage Plant Liaison Committee recommended that the name should be changed to Townsville stylo in order to avoid confusion with species of Medicago. |