Citation: Stokes in With., Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl. edn 2, 1:227 (1787).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Twiggy mullein, green mullein.

Description:
Stiff erect, largely simple-stemmed biennial up to 3 m tall, with a dense glandular pubescence in upper parts, sparser below, and longer, simple or branched eglandular hairs densest in the lower pans; leaves in the lower parts obovate to elliptic, tapering into a petiole, 8-30 x 3-10 cm, coarsely crenate, sometimes more broadly undulate as well, higher up smaller, ovate-elliptic, sometimes almost pandurate, sessile, stem-clasping.

Inflorescence a spike, usually simple, rarely with 1 or 2 basal branches, composed of many scattered clusters of 1-6 flowers on short axillary branches, or the flowers solitary in the bract axils, the main subtending bracts ovate, serrulate, acuminate, except at the base of the inflorescence shorter than the flower or flower cluster; pedicels 1-2 mm long, longer in fruit; sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, 5-8 mm long, entire; corolla yellow with a purple centre, rotate, 30-40 mm diam., with the upper lobes shorter than the lower and lateral lobes; stamens 5, with densely villous filaments, the 3 upper stamens with reniform anthers, the 2 lower stamens longer, 7-9 mm long, with anthers reniform but obliquely inserted and decurrent along the filament;

Capsule globose, 5-8 mm diam.

	Habit, flower in front view, upper and lower stamen and fruit.
Image source: fig. 591C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of A.C.T., fig. 328.

Distribution:  In disturbed ground, on margins of roads and tracks, on hills or plains, in stony loam or sand. S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to western Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — 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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