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Myoporum parvifolium R.Br.

Creeping Myoporum, dwarf native-myrtle, slender myoporum

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Summary

Myoporum parvifolium, commonly known as creeping boobialla, creeping myoporum, dwarf native myrtle or small leaved myoporum is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae. It is a low, spreading shrub with long, trailing stems and white, star-shaped flowers and is endemic to southern Australia including Flinders Island.

Text from Wikipedia, “Myoporum parvifolium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Myoporum

Myoporum is a genus of flowering plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae. There are 30 species in the genus, eighteen of which are endemic to Australia although others are endemic to Pacific Islands, including New Zealand, and one is endemic to two Indian Ocean islands. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are arranged alternately and have white, occasionally pink flowers and a fruit that is a drupe.

Text from Wikipedia, “Myoporum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Scrophulariaceae
Described by
R.Br.
Native to
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania +1
Wild records
1000 in range· 687 open

At a glance

Warmest month
26°C
Jan, mean day; nights 16 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
440mm/yr
9 wet months · peak Jun 55 mm (CHELSA)
Light
14–49DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to April in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 440 mm a year, wettest June at 55 mm, driest January at 19 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 49 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Myoporum humile R.Br.; Myoporum verrucosum (Desv.) Desv., 1814; Myoporum verrucosum (Desv.) Poir.; Pogonia aspera A.DC.; Pogonia scabra A.DC. and 2 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to April in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (322 mm of 440 mm) falls in April to October, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 12.8 °C against a yearly mean of 15.5 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 440 mm a year, wettest June at 55 mm, driest January at 19 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

440 mm a year at the habitat, 322 mm of it April to October. Wettest month June at 55 mm, driest January at 19 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 258 mm to 749 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 49 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 49 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.8 °C, the absolute minimum -2.0 °C, 18 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 43.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 6.3 °C in July (across the envelope cells 5.1 °C to 10.3 °C), warmest day 26.2 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 53 to 60% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 13 °C in Jul to 26 °C in Jan; mean night from 6 °C in Jul to 16 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 440 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 461 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -2.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 43.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost43.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-2.0° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100mm rainDLI 14–49RH 53–60 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 461 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C26 / 21–3226 / 21–3124 / 20–2820 / 18–2317 / 15–1914 / 13–1613 / 12–1514 / 13–1716 / 15–2019 / 16–2322 / 18–2724 / 19–29
Night °C16 / 14–1916 / 14–1915 / 13–1712 / 10–159 / 8–137 / 6–116 / 5–107 / 6–119 / 7–1111 / 9–1313 / 11–1515 / 12–17
Rain mm19 / 14–4819 / 14–4622 / 13–5232 / 15–6143 / 23–7055 / 26–9355 / 28–9053 / 27–8446 / 25–6938 / 24–6729 / 21–6929 / 22–62
DLI49 / 45–5144 / 40–4635 / 31–3825 / 22–2817 / 15–1914 / 12–1515 / 13–1621 / 18–2229 / 25–3138 / 34–4045 / 41–4648 / 44–50
RH %53 / 46–5854 / 46–5955 / 48–5956 / 51–5959 / 55–6160 / 58–6360 / 57–6358 / 54–6157 / 52–6056 / 49–5855 / 47–5854 / 46–59

Each figure is the median across the 461 grid cells holding the 970 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2483:6415 (-34.175, 140.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -2.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 43.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 461 distinct grid cells holding the 970 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2483:6415 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -34.00_140.625, lapse-corrected -25 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 25 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria· introduced: California
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-34.282, 140.601 · in the densest population, 603 records (60% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1000 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 687 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. 199 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 30 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 1000 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Jacob Moore, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) James Hardcastle, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Rod Lowther, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Terra Occ, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Nina Kerr, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Myoporum parvifolium, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Australian native flowering plants enhance the longevity of three parasitoids of brassica pests
Sunita Pandey, Azizur Rahman, Geoff M. Gurr (2018) · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Effect of different host plants on the growth of the root hemiparasite Santalum acuminatum (quandong)
B. R. Loveys, Stephen D. Tyerman, Brian Loveys (2002) · Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Mulching effect on selected ornamental plants
N. R. Bhat, M. K. Suleiman, R.R. Bellen, Laila Almulla (2004) · Journal of Applied Horticulture
Performance of ornamental plants under deficit irrigation.
M. K. Suleiman, N. R. Bhat, Ricardo Bellen (2003) · Journal of Applied Horticulture
WATER REQUIREMENTS OF GROUNDCOVER SPECIES IN CENTRAL ARIZONA
William R. Feldman, Alex X. Niemiera (1990) · HortScience
Overland Flow and Rainfall Simulation Studies on Ornamental Vegetation, Compost, and Jute Netting
Brent G. Hallock, Candace Kimmelshue, Steve Rein, Michael Curto (2009) · DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University)
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Myoporum 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 36 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.