Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Myoporum montanum R.Br. Family: Scrophulariaceae Brown, R. (1810) Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae : 515. Type: Port Jackson - Hunter R., R. Brown; holo: BM?. Common name: Boobialla; Myrtle, Native; Native Myrtle; Water Bush; Western Boobialla Stem Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 2-3 m tall. Leaves Oil dots numerous, very variable in size, only the larger oil dots visible to the naked eye. Leaf blades about 3.5-14 x 0.8-1.8 cm, quite brittle when folded. Petioles about 1 cm long. Venation not very Leaves, flowers and fruit. © obvious on either the upper or lower surface of the leaf blades. Terminal buds and young shoots CSIRO glabrous. Flowers Corolla about 3-4.5 mm long and about 3-4 mm diam. Corolla tube and lobes hairy on the inner surface. Large oil dots visible on the corolla lobes. Style sparsely hairy. Fruit Fruits about 4 mm diam. Endocarp thick and hard. Embryo small, cotyledons about as wide as the radicle. Seedlings Cotyledons about 9-12 x 3-4 mm. First pair of leaves glabrous, margins toothed, oil dots yellowish. At the tenth leaf stage: stem marked by numerous small warty bumps and the leaf blade with Flowers [not vouchered]. CC-BY numerous large oil dots. Seed germination time 373 to 449 days. J.L. Dowe Distribution and Ecology Occurs in WA, NT, CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as Victoria. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 900 m. Grows in a variety of habitats ranging from beach or dune vegetation, beach forest, open forest, wet sclerophyll forest to rain forest margins. Sometimes found in disturbed areas in upland or mountain rain forest. Also occurs in New Guinea. Natural History & Notes This species may be poisonous but this needs conformation. Synonyms Myoporum acuminatum var. angustifolium Benth., Flora Australiensis 5: 4(1870), Type: Port Fruit [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Jackson and Mount Hunter, R. Brown, but chiefly in the interior of Queensland and N.S. Wales. Dowe Holo: ?. Myoporum cunninghamii Benth., Enumeratio Plantarum .. Huegel : 78(1837), Type: Queensland. Moreton Bay (A. Cunningham) Holo: ?. RFK Code 3140 Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO 10th leaf stage. © CSIRO Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.