Common name: slender myoporum
Myoporum floribundum A.Cunn. ex Benth. APNI* 
Description: Sour-smelling glabrous shrub to 3 m high, branches sparsely to obscurely tuberculate.
Leaves alternate to opposite, pendent, linear to ± terete, acute, 2–11 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, margins entire, surfaces concolorous, glabrous.
Flowers 6–8 in axils; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Sepals valvate, triangular, 1.0–1.5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide. Corolla 5–7 mm diam., white, unspotted; lobes acute.
Fruit oblong, compressed, 2–3 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, truncate.
Flowering: winter–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest; below Jenolan Caves and in the Nepean R. area.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, CT
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by R. J. Chinnock
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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