Citation: Hook., Hook. Ic. 5:t. 410 (1842).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Round-leaved wilsonia.

Description:
Small prostrate much-branched perennial, more or less hirsute with 2-branched hairs; leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, broadly ovate and barely acute, to oblong-spathulate and obtuse, 1.5-4 mm long.

Flowers 5-merous, pedicels more or less absent; calyx tubular, 4.5-5 mm long, with triangular acute teeth about one-third the length of the hirsute tube; corolla salver-shaped, white, tube more or less equalling the calyx, with oblong-elliptic bluntly acute lobes 2-3 mm long; stamens and style slightly exserted; filaments attached just below the throat; ovary completely or partially 2-celled; style divided at or below the middle into 2 branches, stigmas capitate.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 559.

Distribution:  Grows in coastal and subcoastal saline marshes and brackish swamps. S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

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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