Citation: Carolin, Telopea 2:70 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb to 15 cm high; basal leaves forming an ascending rosette, oblanceolate, attenuate into a petiole-like base, obtuse, 3-6 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, thick, dentate to lyrate-pinnatifid or subentire, appressed-pubescent or glabrescent, non-glandular; cauline leaves smaller, mostly entire; stems decumbent, to 40 cm long, terete, glabrescent.

Flowers in terminal somewhat 1-sided racemes; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 6-15 mm long, pubescent; peduncles 6-11 mm long, at first densely pubescent, later glabrescent, articulate immediately below the ovary; bracteoles absent; sepals broad-ovate to lanceolate, 1-1.6 mm long, pubescent, adnate to the ovary for about two-thirds of its length; corolla 4-6 mm long, yellow, often purplish-brown near the base, pubescent outside, villous inside, with an obscure pocket to half the length of the ovary; posterior lobes with narrow subequal wings; auricles minute; anterior lobes with broad equal wings; anthers c. 0.2 mm long; style c. 1.5 mm long, straight, glabrous; indusium depressed-obovate, c. 0.6 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide, villous with a concave orifice beset with short white bristles; ovary glabrous or subglabrous; dissepiment ciliate, about one-quarter as long as the ovary.

Capsule globular, 2.5-3 mm diam., glabrous; valves entire; seeds biconvex, orbicular, c. 2 mm diam., pitted, black, with a hyaline wing overlapping the body.

	Habit, flower and seed.
Image source: fig. 632d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In scrub on sandy soils. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT.   W.Aust.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available