Citation: Delarbre, Fl. Auvergne 1:20 (1795).

Synonymy: Gentiana filiformis L., Sp. Pl. 231 (1753); Microcola filiformis (L.)Hoffsgg. & Link, Fl. Port. 1:359 (1809). , Microcala filiformis

Common name: Slender cicendia.

Description:
Delicate annual 3-15 cm high, little-branched but often right from the basal rosette, glabrous, with branches often ridged to quadrangular; basal leaves densely clustered, linear, 2-15 x c. 2 mm, acute, spreading to recurved, slightly fleshy but soon withering; cauline leaves linear to linear-triangular, 2-6 x c. 1 mm, acute to pointed, erect, with pairs scarcely connate at the base.

Inflorescence an untidy thyrse with cymes usually reduced to a single terminal flower, or if lateral flowers develop then one by one and never in pairs; calyx with a tube c. 2 mm long; lobes 1-1.5 mm long, pointed and with membranous margins; corolla tubular to narrowly urceolate, 5-7 mm long, yellow; lobes lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, obtuse or rounded; stamens with filaments fused for the whole length of the corolla tube; ovary broadly ellipsoid, abruptly tapering into a short thin style with capitate 2-lobed stigmas.

Septicidal capsule without styles, 3-4 mm long and splitting only at the apex.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1964) Drawings Brit. Pl. 20:pl. 25.

Distribution:  Moist places. S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to southern and western Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

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