Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum boninense subsp. australe
Common name
Boobialla
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, coastal cliffs, and sand dunes. Coastal areas.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high, or sprawling to prostrate. Fruit fleshy. Branches hairless, not warty, rarely obscurely warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.2–7 cm long, 5.5–36 mm wide, tips pointed or blunt, margins entire, surfaces the same colour on bothe sides, shiny, hairless. Flowers white, unspotted, 6–8 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes. Sepals lacking obvious translucent membranous margins. Flowers in clusters of 1-8. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit light purple to purple or violet, smooth.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~boninense (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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