Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Myoporum bateae

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Mumbulla State Forest north of Bega

Young tree. Photographer jackie Miles

Common name

None

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges mainly between Wollongong and south-east of Bombala. Rarely in the Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Branches hairless, sparsely to densely warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4.5–15 cm long, 3–16 mm wide, surfaces different colours on each side, hairless, warty, margins finely toothed, tips pointed. Flowers sweet-smelling, white, bright pink, or pale purplish pink, unspotted, 4–6 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube and 5 lobes. Sepals lacking obvious translucent membranous margins. Flowers in clusters of 3–10. Fruit dry when ripe. Flowering: spring–summer. 

Family was Myoporaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~bateae (accessed 24 January, 2021)