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Eremophila microtheca F.Muell. ex Benth.

Scrophulariaceae · Western Australia

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Summary

Eremophila microtheca, also known as heath-like eremophila, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy branches and leaves, narrow leaves and pale lilac-coloured flowers and which emits a strong odour.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eremophila microtheca", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 4 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 4 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWestern Australia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-27.682, 114.33 · in the densest population, 3 records (75% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 255 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Benjamin Anderson, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au, via Wikimedia Commons; JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Eremophila 43 in the reference

Eremophila alternifolia Eremophila alternifolia Narrow-leaved Emu Bush Photo: CC0, author not statedEremophila bignoniiflora Eremophila bignoniiflora Bignonia Emu-bush Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioEremophila biserrata Eremophila biserrata Prostrate Eremophila Photo: CC BY, Don WoodEremophila bowmanii Eremophila bowmanii Silver turkeybush Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan CopelandEremophila calorhabdos Eremophila calorhabdos Red Rod Photo: CC BY, Em LamondEremophila christophori Eremophila christophori Dolomite Fuschia Bush Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandEremophila cuneifolia Eremophila cuneifolia Wedge-leaf desert fuchsia Photo: CC BY, Hugo InnesEremophila dalyana Eremophila dalyana Gidgee fuchsia bush Photo: CC BY, Euan MooreEremophila debilis Eremophila debilis Winter-apple Photo: CC BY, Kevin JägerEremophila decipiens Eremophila decipiens Slender Fuchsia Photo: CC BY, Tyler AnthonyEremophila densifolia Eremophila densifolia Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Geoff DerrinEremophila denticulata Eremophila denticulata Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, Murray Fagg all 44 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bondtia angustifolia; Pholidia microtheca. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Scrophulariaceae
Described by
F.Muell. ex Benth.
Native to
Western Australia
Wild records
4 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-224 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 585194-1 is Kew's for Eremophila microtheca F.Muell. ex Benth.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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