Common name: Weeooka
Eremophila oppositifolia R.Br. APNI* Description: Shrub or small tree to 10 m high with branches, leaves and pedicels with a grey-appressed tomentum; branches usually non-tuberculate.
Leaves alternate or opposite, linear to ± terete or linear-lanceolate, 3–12 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, apex acute and hooked, margins entire, flattened, greyish tomentose.
Flowers 1–4 in axils; pedicels 3–10.5 mm long. Sepals separated at base, spathulate to oblanceolate, 4.5–18 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, apex obtuse, cream to pink. Corolla 15–30 mm long, cream tinged reddish brown above or pink, unspotted, glabrous outside; lobes obtuse. Stamens exserted.
Fruit oblong, 2–4-angled, obtuse, 4–8 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., dry, woody, densely pubescent, hairs appressed.
Flowering: winter to early summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows mainly in Belah and Belah–Rosewood communities on a variety of soils; west from Condobolin district.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
Text by R. J. Chinnock
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Shrub with leaves opposite or a few subopposite, 1–3 mm wide. Sepals cream | subsp. oppositifolia |
| Shrub or tree with leaves alternate, 3–7 mm wide. Sepals cream or pink | subsp. rubra |
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