The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

Hi, Can anyone tell me of the known naturalized distribution of Eremophila Debilis in the North island of NZ as it appears to be unavailable when I search for it on the distribution map. All I get is the outer city boundary's with no botanical information.
Thank you in advance, Alan,

An open distribution search (i.e.no filters added for year, district etc) yields a modest collection of 7 observations (6 from DOC databases and 1 from a Tony Druce plant list). NZPCN does not set out to fill observation data gaps, we simply receive observations made by users and other databases.
Naturalised plants tend to have patchy distribution so often a naturalised species fact sheet will not describe the distribution as in most cases this would require listing a whole range of disjunct sites.

Eremophila debilis was reported as 'native' in Allan (1961, Fl of NZ - as Myoporum debile) from the coast south of Raglan Harbour on the basis of comments and garden specimens he had seen that were 'said' to have come from there. I interviewed the person who supposedly found it in the wild there and he was very 'evasive' on the subject. Also despite considerable searching I, and others never found it there. But in 1978 it was found by the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club on coastal cliffs below baches at Te Maika at the southern entrance to the Kawhia Harbour. Read on

"....That population died out in 1981. I have never seen it 'wild' again. However my research and that of Dr Bob Chinock (world Myoporaceae (now merged into Scrophulariaceae) suggests that none of the NZ occurrences were truly 'native' and that the one seen at Te Maika was at best a deliberate planting or cultivation escape. The NZ plants have blue-flowers, this is a rare sport very uncommon in the wild but once widely grown in Australia (and NZ) as a horticultural plant. I have seen no bona fide NZ wild herbarium specimens. Currently we regard this species as a failed naturalisation..." Hope that helps