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Myoporum bateae F.Muell.
Family Scrophulariaceae
Myoporum bateae F.Muell. APNI*

Synonyms: Myoporum floribundum var. bateae APNI*

Description: Sweet-smelling glabrous shrub to 4 m high, branches sparsely to densely tuberculate.

Leaves linear-elliptic, 4.5–15 cm long, 3–9 or rarely 16 mm wide, apex acute, margins finely toothed, surfaces discolorous, glabrous, tuberculate.

Flowers 3–10 in axils; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Sepals valvate, linear-triangular, 1–2.2 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide. Corolla 4–6 mm diam., white or pale purplish pink, unspotted; lobes obtuse.

Fruit ovate, compressed, 2–2.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, apex truncate, emarginate.


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Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest in the coastal ranges, chiefly from Nowra to Cobargo districts.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, ST
AVH map***

Text by R. J. Chinnock
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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