The Beaked Eremophila is an erect, rounded shrub that grows 1.5-3 m tall. The leaves are glabrous, dark green and glossy, terete and 1 mm in diameter. The flowers are pendulous and have small calyx lobes. The corolla is scarlet, light pink inside, without spots, and bulbous at the base. The upper lip of the corolla is 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed. The stamens extend beyond the corolla throat. The fruits are strongly compressed laterally, convex and keeled above, and beak-like. Both fruit margins are winged. Flowering is June-October.
Eremophila rostrata |
Eremophila rostrata
Status: Critically Endangered on the EPBC Act list
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Australian Government, Conservation Advice, Eremophila rostrata
Threats The current threats to the species are inappropriate road maintenance works and inappropriate fire regimes.
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Australian Government, Listing Advices, Eremophila rostrata
Description of Threats The main identified threats to the Beaked Eremophila are inappropriate road maintenance works and inappropriate fire regimes.
Conversely; a certain fire frequency is likely to be required to stimulate recruitment (Stack and English; 2003).
The main threats to the species include inappropriate road maintenance works and inappropriate fire regimes.
A range of current threats to the species have been identified; including inappropriate road maintenance works and inappropriate fire regimes.
This geographic distribution is precarious for the survival of the species; due to its severe fragmentation and a number of current threats directly impacting the species; including inappropriate road maintenance works and inappropriate fire regimes.
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