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Myoporum semotum; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-02-06

Myoporum semotum Heenan & de Lange

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Scrophulariaceae · Chatham Is.

No habitat climate
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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.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Myoporum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 23 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 23 of the 23 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.
NativeChatham Is. · 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-44.249, -176.234 · in the densest population, 23 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 23 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 21 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 11 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 23 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 23 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: (c) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) John Barkla, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Other Myoporum 15 in the reference

Myoporum acuminatum Myoporum acuminatum Mangrove boobialla Photo: CC BY, Lucas ChristofidesMyoporum bateae Myoporum bateae Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, krumpiankingMyoporum boninense Myoporum boninense Boobialla Photo: CC BY, Kevin JägerMyoporum bontioides Myoporum bontioides Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng ZengMyoporum floribundum Myoporum floribundum Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, MelburnianMyoporum insulare Myoporum insulare Common boobialla Photo: CC BY, Emma BurnsMyoporum laetum Myoporum laetum Ngaio tree Photo: CC BY, Jon SullivanMyoporum montanum Myoporum montanum Western boobialla Photo: CC BY, Lucas ChristofidesMyoporum parvifolium Myoporum parvifolium Slender myoporum Photo: CC BY, Nina KerrMyoporum petiolatum Myoporum petiolatum Sticky Boobialla Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyMyoporum platycarpum Myoporum platycarpum False sandalwood Photo: CC0, author not statedMyoporum sandwicense Myoporum sandwicense Bastard-sandalwood Photo: CC BY, Neal Kelso all 16 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Scrophulariaceae
Described by
Heenan & de Lange
Native to
Chatham Is.
Wild records
23 in range · 21 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 2026-10-2223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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