Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 187 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Smooth heliotrope.

Description:
Annual or perennial, prostrate, glabrous, usually glaucous; leaves narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1-4 cm long, 0.2-1 cm wide, shortly petiolate, the apex obtuse, the margin not revolute or undulate.

Inflorescence a usually unbranched cyme, circinnate; calyx not accrescent; corolla white to pinkish with the throat yellow, salverform, the tube c. 1.5 mm long, the limb c. 2-2.5 mm diam.; anthers free; style obsolete, the stigma with the stigmatic cone pubescent and c. 0.25 mm long.

Mericarps 4, falling at maturity.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 563.

Distribution:  Grows usually in saline soils. S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   All mainland States.   Native to South America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — April.

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

Biology: No text

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