Citation: Dumort., Fl. Belg. 35 (1827).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pointed toadflax, hairy toadflax, sharp-leaved fluellen.

Description:
Prostrate widely spreading villous perennial with long eglandular and shorter glandular hairs; main branches (in S.Aust.) bearing several lateral branches; leaves shortly petiolate, acuminate, in basal parts broadly elliptic-denticulate to broadly ovate-hastate, 1-3 x 0.7-2.4 cm, distally ovate- hastate, sometimes sagittate or ovate, smaller towards branch apices where often 4-8 mm long.

Pedicels (in S.Aust.) 0.5-2 cm long, 0.8-3 times longer than the subtending leaf, 2.5-6 times longer than the flowering calyx; calyx 2.5-5 mm long, the segments free except at the base, narrow-ovate, acuminate; corolla 2.5-7.5 mm long along the upper side, with the tube white, the spur white, 5-7 mm long, curved down or forward, the upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and the lower lip pale-yellow.

Capsule subglobose, 3-4 mm diam.(4-4.5 mm in Europe), thin-walled, brown-white, eglandular and glandular-pubescent, at length glabrescent; seeds broad-ellipsoid, 0.8-1.2 mm long, alveolate, dark-brown.

Distribution:  Both the subspecies which occur naturally in Europe are recognised here. However, in S.Aust. only 2 specimens with glabrous fruiting pedicels have few lateral branches and sagittate leaves towards the branch ends as occurs in subsp. elatine in Europe. It is possible then that most specimens attributed here to this subspecies are variants of subsp. crinita. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available