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Scrophulariaceae

Subfamily Buddlejoideae

W/C = Wild Collected
Myoporum debile R. Br.

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name:
  • Family: Scrophulariaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Australia
  • Habitat:

  • Description: Low shrub, to 3 feet high and 4 feet across, branches trailing, shoots glandular-tuberculed; leaves lanceolate to narrow-oblong, to 4 inches long, sparsely toothed, short-petioled; flowers 1 or 2 in leaf axils, pink, calyx lobes broadly ovate, corolla about 5/16 inches across, bearded inside; fruit ovoid, flattened, 1/2 inch wide, rose-colored, edible.
    Useful for rock gardens and banks

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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199100114
  • Source: Smith Col.
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1991
  • Bench: 1218 - AUS:Queensland C
  • Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-15-2009
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Scrophulariaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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References:

  1. Plants For A Future Website
  2. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976

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