Family: Scrophulariaceae
Eremophila santalina
Citation:
Rocky situations throughout the Flinders Ranges.
Synonymy: Pholidiopsis santalina F. Muell., Linnaea 25:429 (1853); Pholidia santalina (F. Muell.)F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:15 (1870).
Common name: None
Description:
Glabrous shrub or small tree 1-5 m tall; branches tuberculate or rarely non-tuberculate; leaves alternate, scattered, linear-lanceolate to falcate, 25.5-94.5 x 2-11.5 mm, acuminate, uncinate, margins entire, surfaces minutely punctate.
Flowers 1 rarely 2 per axil; pedicel 8-20.5 mm long, straight, glabrous; sepals valvate, green, triangular, 1.8-7 x 1-1.7 mm, acuminate, glabrous; corolla 10-20 mm long, cream often tinged purplish-pink, unspotted, outside surface glabrous, inside of tube pubescent, lobes glabrous or pubescent, acute; stamens included, filaments glabrous, anthers sagittate, glabrous; ovary and style glabrous.
Fruit slightly fleshy, ovoid, 5.8-8.8 x 4.2-6.5 mm, glabrous.
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Image source: fig. 612C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Elliot & Jones (1984) Encyclopaedia of Australian plants 3:459.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly July — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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