Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum floribundum
Common name
Slender myoporum
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Forest. Southern Highlands and ranges, north of Berrima.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Branches hairless, sparsely to obscurely warty, often horizontal to drooping. Leaves with an unpleasant sour smell, alternating up the stems to opposite each other, hanging down, 2–11 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, linear to more or less cylindrical, margins entire, surfaces hairless,,the same colour on each side, tips pointed.. Flowers white, unspotted, with long scattered hairs inside, 5–7 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes. Sepals lacking obvious translucent membranous margins. Flowers in clusters of 6–8 flowers on the upper side of the branches, the clusters often running into each other. Fruit dry when ripe. Flowering: winter–summer.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~floribundum (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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