Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum parvifolium
Common name
Creeping Myoporum, Creeping Boobialla
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Clay soils, often on saline flats. Western Slopes.
Notes
Prostrate mat-forming shrub usually less than about 0.1 m tall. Fruit fleshy. Stems smooth to warty. Leaves alternating along the stems, clustered, 0.5-5.7 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, surfaces the same colour on each side, green to brown, hairless, often warty, margins entire, toothed, or warty, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers white or pink, with purple spots inside, 7–9 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube and 5 lobes, the fronts of the lobes hairless or hairy. Flowers in 1-5 flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year. Fruit white or yellowish white, translucent, drying brown.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~parvifolium (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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