Family: Orobanchaceae
Parentucellia viscosa
Citation:
Caruel in Parl., Fl. Ital. 6:482 (1885).
Synonymy: Bartsia viscosa L., Sp. Pl. 602 (1753) 'Bartschia' in some works, an orthographic variant).
Common name: Yellow bartsia, sticky bartsia.
Description:
Erect viscid herb 10-70 cm high, simple or sometimes with slender branches arising from the upper nodes, covered by soft glandular and stiff eglandular hairs; leaves narrow-ovate to elliptic, 10-42 x 3-12 mm, rounded at the base, dentate, the upper ones with c. 6-10 pairs of teeth, acute.
Flowers dense with many subsessile flowers, elongating slightly in fruit; calyx tubular, 10-17 mm long, finely longitudinally ribbed, the tube more or less as long as the narrow-triangular teeth; corolla 15-24 mm long along the upperside, yellow, with broader lips than the preceding species, caducous; anthers yellow.
Capsule narrow-ovoid, slightly longer than the enlarged calyx tube, densely eglandular-strigose; seeds c. 0.35-0.45 mm long, brown, smooth or obscurely reticulate.
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Image source: fig. 599B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Abrams (1951) Ill. Fl. Pacific States 3:fig. 4799; Ross-Craig (1966) Drawings Brit. Pl. 23:t. 11.
Distribution:
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Moist to seasonally swampy areas, sometimes saline flats, in open vegetation or in association with woodland.
W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native to the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
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Biology:
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Author:
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