page_title: Eremophila malacoides
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Eremophila malacoides / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Eremophila malacoides growing 50km west of Wiluna
context_page_description: Eremophila malacoides, commonly known as frontage poverty bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with grey-green foliage, densely hairy leaves, and usually lilac to purple flowers but a yellow flowered form also occurs.
context_section_description: Eremophila malacoides is a greyish, spreading shrub with many tangled branches usually growing to a height of less than 1 m (40 in). Its leaves and branches are covered with grey, matted hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are mostly elliptic to egg-shaped, 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long and 2.5–7 mm (0.1–0.3 in) wide.
  
  The flowers are borne singly, without a stalk in leaf axils. There are 5 hairy, overlapping, lance-shaped sepals which are 5.5–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long. The hairs on the outer surface of the sepals are yellowish and form a dense, loose mat. The petals are 20–32 mm (0.8–1 in) long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is lilac-coloured to purple on the outside and white with purple spots on the inside.  In the Granite Peak area, the flowers of this species are more usually yellow. The outer surface of the tube and petal lobes is hairy, the inner surface of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs after rain from April to November and the fruits which follow are dry, woody, hairy, oval-shaped and 4.5–6 mm (0.18–0.24 in) long.
caption: E. malacoides growing near Wiluna
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