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Eremophila platythamnos

Citation: Diels, Bot. Jb. 35:539 (1905).

Synonymy: E. exotrachys Kraenzlin, Kew Bull. 1925:283 (1925).

Common name: None

Description:
Much-branched viscid shrub to 1 m tall; branches non-tuberculate, eglandular-pubescent or glabrous, viscid; leaves alternate, scattered or clustered, obovate to oblanceolate, 5.5-16 x 2.5-8.5 mm, obtuse, apex recurved, mucronate, margins entire or serrate, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent, viscid.

Fruit dry, ovoid, 5.5-6.5 x 3.5-4.5 mm, villous.

image of FSA3_Eremophila_pla.jpg Branch, flower and fruit.
Image source: fig. 611I in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Occurs on red sand dunes and adjacent swales.

  W.Aust.; N.T.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Nov.


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