A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia by Andrew Brown and Bevan Buirchell has the following description:
Derivation of name: lucida (shining), refers to the glossy, shiny leaves.
Flowering: August–October.
Description: A short-lived species 1 to 3.5 m high with large, glossy, viscid leaves 54 to 85 mm long by 7.5 to 15
mm wide, large sepals 8.5 to 15 mm long by 3.5 to 8 mm wide and a cream, yellow, mauve or rarely pink corolla 25
to 35 mm long.
Distribution & habitat: Found in clay loam and sandy clay, adjacent to samphire flats and breakaways between
Norseman and
Hyden.
Notes: A rare species named by Bob Chinnock in 2007 from specimens he collected east of Lake Cronin. It is currently
known from just two disjunct locations, in both areas appearing following fire or soil disturbance. Interestingly, in one area the flowers are predominantly cream while in the other they are predominantly mauve.
Based on that it would seem that your mauve flowered plant is correctly identified.
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