Eremophila willsii
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Ausl. 3:21 (1862).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall; branches non-tuberculate or tuberculate, glandular-pubescent; leaves alternate, clustered and usually overlapping, elliptic to narrowly or broadly obovate, 10-45 x 4-21 mm, acute or obtuse, but with a small mucro, margins serrate or entire, glabrous but prominently glandular-punctate or glandular-pubescent.
Flowers 1 or rarely 2 or 3 in the axil; pedicel 2-10 mm long, straight, glandular-pubescent; sepals imbricate, unequal, green, outer 2 ovate, inner 3 lanceolate, 9-18 x 3-9 mm, acute or obtuse, both surfaces glandular-pubescent; corolla 15-25 mm long, purple more rarely lilac or white, tube white with prominent red to blackish-purple bands running down the lateral walls, outside surface pubescent with long eglandular and short glandular hairs; inside of tube villous but with a dense woolly band extending down the tube from the base of the lobes of the upper lip; stamens included, glabrous; ovary and style villous.
Fruit dry, ovoid, 6-11 x 2.5-6 mm, villous.
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Image source: fig. 612I 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 3:463.
Distribution:
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Usually found on red sand dunes and adjacent swale areas or on deep sand plains.
W.Aust.; N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly July — Dec.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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