Eremophila glabra
(R.Br.) Ostenf. Common Emu-bushProstrate to erect shrub to c. 3 m high, glabrous or stellate- to branched-pubescent; branches not tuberculate. Leaves alternate, scattered, linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 0.7–6 cm long, 1–18 mm wide, glabrous or stellate-pubescent, apex acute, margins entire or rarely toothed. Inflorescences 1-flowered; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Flowers zygomorphic; sepals lanceolate, 2.5–9 mm long, apex acute to acuminate, imbricate; corolla 20–30 mm long, glabrous or glandular-pubescent outside, glandular-pubescent inside, red or yellow, unspotted, upper lip 4-lobed; stamens 4, long-exserted, anthers reniform; ovary glabrous, style glabrous. Fruit ovoid to subglobose, 4–9 mm long, 3.5–8.5 mm diam., dry or fleshy, glabrous, often red.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold, GGr.
3 subspecies, 2 in Victoria.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Myoporaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 528–539. Inkata Press, Melbourne.