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Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.

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Myoporum debile

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Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.

Low-growing shrub "covering large area of ground"; branches slender, semi-trailing, to 50 cm. or more long but flowering at 30 cm. or less; branchlets reddish, c. 1 mm. diam., obscurely tuberculate. Lvs about 4-8 cm. × 5-10 mm., narrow linear-lanceolate, subacute, sessile with narrow winged base; margins entire except near apex and base, teeth small, acute, the lowest ± backwardly directed (small lvs often dentate throughout); lamina submembr., glab., with very obscure pellucid spots. Fls 1-2 in lf-axil, pedicels 4-5 mm. long. Calyx-lobes 5-7 × 2 mm., elongating to 8-9 mm. in fruit, narrow-lanceolate, acute, us. entire. Corolla purplish, 6-8 mm. long, narrow campanulate, lobes shorter than tube, subequal, the anterior us. broader than the others, subobtuse, villous within. Stamens 4, about equal to corolla-tube. Style c. 5 mm. long, often persisting in mature fr. Ovary 2-loculed. Drupe globular, c. 9 × 10 mm. but size varying considerably on one branch; white below, flushed with reddish purple above; the included pyrene stony, c. 5 × 5 mm., laterally compressed and ± biconvex, slightly emarginate and faintly grooved on flatter faces.

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Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.
Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.
Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.
Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.
Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.
Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br.

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13 March 2002
29 March 2016
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