MYOPORACEAE
Morphological description
NB Myoporaceae are now included in Scrophulariacae
Woody; stems terete.
Leaves
Leaves usually spiral, simple, penninerved, exstipulate.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence: a few flowers together in axils of leaves.
Flowers
Flower bisexual, 5-merous, a few together in axils of leaves, corolla tubular; stamens inserted on the tube; ovary superior. Usually zygomorphic, stamens 4.
Fruit
Fruit a ridged drupe.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Scrophulariaceae: leaves usually opposite, fruit a capsule. - Verbenaceae: leaves usually opposite, stems quadrangular, flowers in compound inflorescence.
Distribution: The family is best represented in Australia. In Malesia only Myopo- rum papuanum, a shrub of open places in savannah and near the coast.
Notes: note.
Literature: S. Bloembergen, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1951) 265-266.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Myoporum 59, 99.
Illustrations: Fig. 119. Myoporum papuanum Kraenzl. (Myoporaceae). Flowering twig; flowers enlarged. Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 4 (1951) 265, fig. 1.
Image in PhytoImages for Scrophulariaceae