Common name: Winter Apple, Amulla
Eremophila debilis (Andrews) Chinnock APNI* Synonyms: Myoporum debile (Andrews) R.Br. APNI*
Description: Glabrous prostrate spreading shrub to 1 or rarely 2 m diam., branches obscurely to prominently tuberculate.
Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 2–12.5 cm long, 3.5–20 mm wide, apex acute, margins with prominent recurved teeth towards the base, entire or occasionally with some small teeth near the apex, glabrous.
Flowers 1 or 2, rarely 3 in axils; pedicels 3.5–7.5 mm long. Sepals imbricate, subequal, lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, 5–13 mm long, 1–4.5 mm wide, apex acute, smooth or tuberculate, green. Corolla 3.5–11 mm long, white to pale mauve, unspotted, glabrous outside; lobes obtuse. Stamens enclosed.
Fruit subglobose, 7–10 mm long, 7–9 mm diam., exocarp fleshy, glabrous, white to reddish purple, endocarp woody.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in box and White Cypress communities, on a variety of soils; north from Deniliquin area.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by R. J. Chinnock
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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