Myoporum platycarpum, known by several common names including sugarwood, false sandalwood and ngural[1] is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae.

It is rounded with bright green foliage as a young shrub and roughly fissured, dark grey bark when mature.

The main flowering season is from August to November and the fruits that follow are green and fleshy at first but dry when mature.

[2][3][4][5][6] Myoporum platycarpum was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in 1810.

[1][7] There are two subspecies: The specific epithet platycarpum is derived from the ancient Greek platys (πλατύς), broad, flat; karpos (καρπός), fruit.