| Desert Pride | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Eremophila |
| Species: | E. eriocalyx |
| Binomial name | |
| Eremophila eriocalyx F. Muell. |
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Eremophila eriocalyx, also known as Desert Pride, is a shrub which is native to Australia.
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It is a spindly shrub which usually grows to between 0.8 and 2 metres high. It produces white, cream, yellow or pink flowers between August and October in Australia (late winter to mid spring)[1]
The species was first formally described in 1859 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. His description was based on plant material collected by Augustus Frederick Oldfield near the Murchison River.[2]
The species occurs in Western Australia. Although the species is recorded near the border of South Australia, it is not recorded in the Census of South Australian Vascular Plants[1][3]