Citation: Schreber, Pl. Verticill. Unilab. 25 (1774).

Synonymy: Teucrium iva L., Sp. Pl. 563 (1753); A. pseudo-iva Robill. & Castagne in DC., Fl. Franc. edn 3, 5:395 (1815).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herbs with a woody base, with branches usually terete, to 20 cm long, much-branched, densely covered with long spreading hairs and without sessile glands; leaves sessile, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1-3 x 0.3-0.5 cm, obtuse, entire to pinnately lobed at the apex, with recurved margins, with long forward-directed hairs denser on the undersurface.

Inflorescence a thyrse without a distinct peduncle, branched or unbranched, with sessile cymose part-inflorescences reduced to 1 or 2 flowers in the axils of the leaf-like bracts, with internodes between pairs of part-inflorescences scarcely elongated; sepals regularly connate to about two-thirds of their length, with a posterior lobe often shorter, faintly veined, 3.5-5.5 mm long, acute, densely covered with spreading hairs mainly along the veins on the outside and the margins; corolla purple, pink or yellow, 1-lipped with 2 oblong lateral lobes and the spathulate anterior one with an emarginate apex, with short spreading hairs on the outside and a ring of short hairs where the stamens are inserted on the inside; stamens inserted below the throat of the corolla tube, with filaments glabrous; anthers with 2 diverging cells, exserted; ovary on a thick disc, scarcely 4-lobed, with a slender style inserted at about the middle, with a scarcely 2-lobed stigma.

Mericarps narrowly oblong-obovoid, 3-4 mm long, not keeled, with an attachment scar being a concavity 2-2.5 mm long with a raised ridge around it, reticulate-rugose.

	Flowering branch and calyx.
Image source: fig. 553B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Bonnier (1927) FI. Compl. France, Suisse & Belg. 9:t. 493.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, YP, SL.   Native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: June — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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