Common name: Bignonia Emu-bush, Creek Wilga, Eurah, Bignonia Emubush
Eremophila bignoniiflora (Benth.) F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Glabrous resinous shrub or small tree to 7 m high, branches non-tuberculate.
Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 7–20 cm long, 4.5–14 mm wide, apex attenuate, margins entire or rarely toothed, glabrous.
Flowers solitary in axils; pedicel 5–24 mm long. Sepals imbricate, ovate, 5–10.5 mm long, 3–4.5 mm wide, apex acute to attenuate, glabrous, green. Corolla 20–30 mm long, cream tinged pink or brown above, rarely carmine, spotted carmine or yellow-brown, glabrous outside; lobes obtuse. Stamens extending to just beyond throat or enclosed.
Fruit ovoid, 15–20 mm long, 10–15 mm diam., split towards apex, glabrous.
Flowering: mainly spring–summer or sporadically throughout year.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows chiefly in Black Box, and River Red Gum communities on periodically flooded heavy clay soils of river floodplains and drainage lines; west from Warialda.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by R. J. Chinnock
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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