Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eremophila debilis

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer R Hotchkiss, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve via Augathella, Qld

Stems with ripe fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Winter Aple

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Where found

Dry forest and grassy woodland. Sydney area and Western Slopes. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Prostrate shrub to 3 m diameter. Fruit fleshy. Branches hairless, obscurely to prominently warty. Leaves alternating along the stems, 2–12.5 cm long, 3.5–29 mm wide, tips pointed, margins with prominent curved down teeth towards the leaf bases, entire, or occasionally with some small teeth near the tips, surfaces hairless. Flowers white to mauve, 3.5–11 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, vaguely 2-lipped. Flowers in clusters of 1-3. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit white to reddish purple. 

Family was Myoporaceae.

Endangered Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~debilis  (accessed 14 January, 2021)