Citation: Mackay ex Sweet, Fl. Austr. t. 1 (1827).

Synonymy: C. rubra Smith var. pulchella (Sweet)J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 496 (1948); C. neglecta Ashby, Proc. Linn. Soc. 151:219 (1939); C. neglecta Ashby var. minor Ashby, Proc. Linn. Soc. 151:219 (1939); C. minor (Ashby)J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 496 (1948).

Common name: Salmon cottea.

Description:
Prostrate or erect shrub 0.3-1 x 1-2 m, almost glabrous; petioles 3-5 mm long; lamina linear-oblong to broadly ovate, 1-2 x 0.3-1.5 cm, subglabrous or glabrous.

Flowers solitary, pendulous, terminal on axillary branchlets; peduncles thin, 5-12 mm; calyx broadly orbicular, 3-6 mm high, margin entire, remaining open or closing after anthesis; corolla cylindrical to funnel-shaped, 1-3 cm long; entirely pink-red, orange or rarely white, deciduous in fruit; staminal filaments broadened at the base; anthers yellow, enclosed or barely exserted, 0.5-1 mm long; ovary nearly glabrous and white (rarely green).

Fruit 4-6 mm, segments rounded; seeds 2-4 x 1-2 mm, shiny, black.

	Correa pulchella
Image source: fig 414f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Beek & Foster (1972) Wildflowers of South Australia.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL, KI, SE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers April — Sept.

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

Biology: Extensive hybridisation is known to occur with C. decumbens and varieties of "C. reflexa". Highly distinctive species.

Author: Not yet available