Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, SE of Brewarrina, NSW

Flowering shrubs. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, W of Bourke, NSW

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Currawinya National Park, Qld

Common Name

Flowering Lignum, Twiggy Emu-bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-8cm long, 1-3.5mm wide, linear, hairless, often sticky when immature. Loses its leaves in drought. Flowers white or very pale mauve, tubular with 5 lobes, borne singly, occasionally in pairs, at the bases of the leaves. Family Myoporaceae in SA. Rare SA. Rare Vic.

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 609

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