Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 439 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Slender monkey-flower.

Description:
Erect to ascending, stoloniferous perennial or ?annual herb, 4-35 cm high, rooting only from the stolon, glabrous, with internodes 1-5.5 cm long; leaves not connected across the nodes, sessile, ovate to linear-oblong, 0.5-3 cm long, narrow-cuneate to rounded at the base, entire or sparsely serrulate, obtuse to bluntly acute.

Pedicels 1-6 cm long; calyx campanulate to narrow-cylindrical, 4-6 mm long, with teeth much shorter than the tube; corolla 2-lipped, blue, purple or lilac, with the yellow tube 1.5 times the length of the calyx, the upper lip recurved, the lower lip c. 4-7 mm long, spreading, with a prominent raised yellow palate behind closing the mouth.

	Habit and flower in two views.
Image source: fig. 585A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 598.

Distribution:  In depressed areas after flooding, by clay pans, swamps and creeks, in clay to sand. S.Aust.: LE, SE.   All mainland States.   India; southern Africa. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May — Sept. (LE), Nov. (SE).

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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