Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum montanum
Common name
Western boobialla, Water bush
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Forest, mallee, woodland, rocky gorges, and near streams. Coast. Ranges and tablelands north from Bungonia. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8m tall. Fruit fleshy. Bark finely fissured. Stems hairless, smooth, rarely warty, at first resinous. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-14 cm long, 2-40 mm wide, hairless, upper and lower surface different colours, margins entire or obscurely toothed, tips pointed. Flowers 6-8 mm in diameter, white, with hairs in the throat, usually with purple spots inside, with a bell-shaped tube and 5 lobes, hairy on the front. Sepals lacking obvious translucent membranous margins. Flowers in clusters of 1-7 flowers. Flowers Winter to Summer. Fruit light purple to reddish purple, smooth.
Family was Myoporaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~montanum (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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