Myoporum parvifolium

R. Brown

Prodr., 516. 1810.

Common names: Creeping myoporum
WeedyIntroduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 337. Mentioned on page 336.

Shrubs, prostrate, to 5 dm. Stems prostrate, much branched, 15 dm, often rooting at nodes; twig tips and young leaves green, not sticky. Leaves: blade green, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–4 × 0.5 cm, margins entire or sparsely serrate distal to middle, embedded glands inconspicuous. Flowers 1–3 per axil; corolla white, purple-spotted at bases of lobes, tube 2.5–3 mm, lobes equal, 3–4 mm, sparsely hairy adaxially; anthers well exserted from tube; ovary smooth. Capsules white to pale-brown, globular, 5–7 mm, fleshy. Seeds ovoid to ellipsoid, 2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Oct.
Habitat: Vacant lots, open, mesic areas in chaparral.
Elevation: 100–300 m.

Distribution

Introduced; Calif., Australia

Discussion

Myoporum parvifolium is widely cultivated as a ground cover in the southwestern United States; it appears to be established in canyons of urban southern California.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Robert E. Preston +
R. Brown +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +
campanulate +
white;pale-brown +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
opposite;alternate +
Creeping myoporum +
bilabiate +, regular +  and symmetric +
purple-spotted +  and white +
campanulate +
Calif. +  and Australia +
100–300 m. +
curved +  and straight +
not +  and abundant +
ovoid;globular +
loculicidal +, septicidal +  and dehiscence +
Vacant lots, open, mesic areas in chaparral. +
alternate +  and opposite +
persistent +
cauline +  and basal +
distal +  and middle +
inconspicuous +
entire +  and subentire undulate toothed lobed divided or incised +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
Flowering Apr–Oct. +
white +  and pale-brown +
ovoid +  and ellipsoid +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
connate +  and distinct +
Weedy +  and Introduced +
4 +  and 8 +
rooting +  and branched +
ascending +  and prostrate +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (?) +
2-5-lobed +  and capitate +
Myoporum parvifolium +
Myoporum +
species +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +