Eremophila scaberula

Taxobox
name = Rough Emu Bush

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image_caption = Young cultivated plant at Kings Park, Western Australia.
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Myoporaceae
genus = "Eremophila"
species = "E. scaberula "
binomial = "Eremophila scaberula "
binomial_authority = W.Fitzg.
synonmyms=
*"Pholidia scaberula" (W.Fitzg.) Kraenzl.

"Eremophila scaberula" (Rough Emu Bush) is a critically endangered plant species which is indigenous to Western Australia. It is a low growing shrub with crowded leaves which produces solitary pale to dark purple flowers in the leaf axils predominantly between September and October in its native range. cite web|author = Stack, Gillian and Val English|title=Rough Emu Bush ("Eremophila scaberula") Recovery Plan 1999-2002|publisher=Department of Conservation and Land Management. Environment Australia|date=June 1999|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/e-scaberula/index.html|accessdate=2008-06-14]

The total wild population is 455 plants occurs in three locations to the south of Moora. The species was declared "Rare Flora" under the Wildlife Conservation Act in 1996 and "Critically Endangered" in 1998.. Threats to the population include weed competition, fire, degraded habitat, disturbance from maintenance activities and, conversely, lack of site disturbance.

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