Belongs within: Scrophulariaceae.
Contains: Eremophila section Platychilus, Eremophila section Stenochilus.
The Myoporaceae are a primarily Australasian group of shrubs and small trees, now recognised to be a phylogenetic subgroup of the family Scrophulariaceae. Flowers have a regular corolla with a short tube in the genus Myoporum but an irregular corolla with a long tube in Eremophila (Black & Robertson 1965).
Characters (Black & Robertson 1965): Shrubs or small trees with exstipulate, simple, usually alternate leaves; flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, without bracteoles. Flowers bisexual, irregular or nearly regular; calyx persistent, usually five-lobed, or five-sectioned; corolla caducous, narrowed towards base of tube, upper part of tube swollen, with four or five almost equal imbricate lobes or sometimes two-lipped, upper lip or upper lobes outside others in bud; stamens usually four, inserted in corolla-tube and alternate with its lower lobes; anther-cells finally confluent at summit so as to form single cell, cells (or lobes) gradually diverging and spreading; ovary superior, normally of two carpels, two-celled, usually becoming four-celled by two intruding septal placentas (spurious disseptiments), with two or several pendulous anatropous ovules in each of the two cells, or sometimes the cells 2–2, distinct, uniovulate; micropyle superior; style simple; stigma entire or faintly notched; fruit a drupe, sometimes almost dry, the endocarp very hard; seeds with scanty albumen, straight embryo and superior radicle.
<==Myoporaceae [Myoporineae]
|--AndroyaT00
|--Calamphoreus inflatusG04b
|--Myoporum Sol. ex Forster 1786A61
| |--M. acuminatumB96
| |--M. adscendensK90
| |--M. brevipesBR65
| |--M. caprarioidesGK00
| |--M. debile (Andr.) Br. 1810 [=Pogonia debilis Andr. 1802]A61
| |--M. deserti Cunningham 1837 (see below for synonymy)BR65
| |--M. insulare [incl. M. adscendens, M. serratum var. obovatum]BR65
| |--M. laetum Forster 1786A61 [incl. M. pubescens Forster 1786A61; incl. Citharexylum perforatumC06]
| | |--M. l. var. laetumA61
| | `--M. l. var. decumbens Simpson 1952A61
| |--M. mauritianumOP01
| |--M. montanum Brown 1810 (see below for synonymy)BR65
| |--M. parvifolium Brown 1810 [incl. M. humile Brown 1810]BR65
| |--M. pictumR01
| |--M. platycarpumBR65
| |--M. refractumBR65
| |--M. sandwicenseMK08
| |--M. tenuifoliumR-CT01
| |--M. tetrandrumK90
| `--M. viscosum [incl. M. glandulosum, M. serratum var. glandulosum]BR65
`--Eremophila Brown 1810BR65
| i. s.: E. caespitosaMLP09
| E. cuneifoliaMLP09
| E. densifoliaG04b
| |--E. d. ssp. densifoliaG04b
| `--E. d. ssp. pubifloraG04b
| E. desertiKM08
| E. elderiBR65
| E. eriocalyxBR65
| E. forrestiiMLP09
| E. fraseriH91
| E. interstansG04a
| E. ionanthaG04a
| E. lachnocalyxMLP09
| E. lanceolataMLP09
| E. leucophyllaH90
| E. macklinyaiK90
| E. macrocarpaR44
| E. maitlandiiKM08
| E. margarethaeH90
| E. mitchelliBW01
| E. oldfieldiiG04a
| |--E. o. ssp. oldfieldiiG04a
| `--E. o. ssp. angustifoliaG04a
| E. pantoniiH90
| E. platycalyxK90
| E. psilocalyxG04b
| E. pterocarpaK90
| E. racemosaG04b
| E. saligna [incl. Duboisia campbellii Morrison 1906]PSH82
| E. spongiocarpaMLP09
| E. strongylophyllaBR65
| E. subfloccosaK90
|--E. sect. EremocosmosBR65
| |--E. clarkeiBR65
| |--E. gilesiiBR65
| |--E. latrobei [incl. E. tietkensii]BR65
| |--E. longifolia [=Stenochilus longifolius]BR65
| |--E. oppositifoliaBR65
| |--E. paisleyiBR65
| `--E. sturtiiBR65
|--E. sect. Pholidia [=Pholidia Brown 1810]BR65
| |--E. dalyana [=Pholidia dalyana]BR65
| |--E. delisseri [=Pholidia delisseri]BR65
| `--E. scoparia [=Pholidia scoparia]BR65
|--E. (sect. Platycalyx) macdonnellii Mueller 1858 (see below for synonymy)BR65
| |--E. m. var. macdonnelliiBR65
| `--E. m. var. glabriusculaBR65
|--E. sect. PlatychilusBR65
`--E. sect. StenochilusBR65
Eremophila macdonnellii Mueller 1858 [incl. E. macdonnellii var. gracilis Black 1914, E. strehlowii Pritzel 1918]BR65
Myoporum deserti Cunningham 1837 [incl. M. mucronulatum de Candolle 1847, M. patens Cunningham 1847, M. strictum Cunningham 1847]BR65
Myoporum montanum Brown 1810 [incl. M. acuminatum var. angustifolium Bentham 1870, M. cunninghamii Bentham 1837, M. dampieri Cunningham 1847]BR65
*Type species of generic name indicated
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