Region: Western Australia.
Genus: 1 species.
Botany: occurring in grey, yellow or red sand, undulating sandplains; herb, prostrate subshrub; leaves simple, petiolate, with cartilage in their margins; flowers irregular, solitary, white, cream yellow, green, pink; flowering from August to November; fruit non-fleshy.
TaxonomyIt is placed in its own
Family Emblingiaceae. It has no close relatives. Emblingia has been placed in
Capparaceae,
Sapindaceae and
Goodeniaceae. The
Cronquist classification palce it in
Polygalaceae. The Apg2, Dahlgren, Reveal, Stevens, Takhtajan and Thorne systems place it in its own
Family Emblingiaceae. Molecular analyses have confirmed the placement in the
Brassicales.