Tar Bush
Fruit
Ellura
Small Tar Bush
Structure
 
                      
Small Tar Bush (Eremophila glabra ssp murrayana)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Mints (Lamiales)
Family: Figwort (Scrophulariaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Small Tar Bush (Eremophila glabra ssp murrayana)
This Photo:     🔍Whole, with rule🔎
Other name: Murray Emubush

Thank you Dr Bevan Buirchell for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Reported to be normally up to 0.5m, but can reach as high at 1m tall.
Finally worked out what this silvery "glabra" is that isn't like most of our other E. glabra's (which we've now labelled E. glabra ssp glabra).
Notice the very non-glabrous (ie pubescent) stems, leaves & flowers! This pubescence is somewhat variable.
The flowers on the bushes we have seem to have shorter flowers than our ssp glabra.
Ours also seem to look quite silvery compared with our ssp glabra.

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 23-Sep-2024
This species is classed as NT (Near Threatened) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)