Flowers and leaves (ssp. oppositifolia). Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub (ssp. oppositifolia). Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Old shrub (ssp. oppositifolia). Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves (ssp. oppositifolia). Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves (ssp. rubra). Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Rosemary Purdie, place unknown

Common Name

Weeooka, Twin-leaf Emu-bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10m tall.  Leaves opposite each other or alternating up the stems, 3-12cm long, 1-7mm wide, flat, channelled above, or narrow cylindrical, hairy to hairless, with a hooked point.  Flowers white to pink, tubular, with five lobes, borne singly or in groups of 2-4 on short stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.  Family Myoporaceae in SA.  Rare Vic (ssp. oppositifolia).

Eremophila oppositifolia ssp. oppositifolia has leaves opposite or almost opposite each other and 1-3mm wide, and has cream sepals. In Eremophila oppositifolia ssp. rubra the leaves alternate up the stems and are 3-7mm wide, and the sepals are pink.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 611

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~oppositifolia