Family: Boraginaceae
Heliotropium filaginoides
Citation:
Benth., Fl. Aust. 4:398 (1868).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Perennial, usually cushion-shaped; stems, leaves and calyx densely hoary with simple unicellular hairs; leaves narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4-9 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, subsessile, the apex obtuse, the margin revolute.
Inflorescence a much reduced cyme usually consisting of 1 to few flowers each subtended by a leaf, more or less straight; calyx not accrescent; corolla white with the throat yellow, outside with simple unicellular hairs, inside with the throat slightly bearded and a longitudinal band of hairs in the middle of each lobe, salverform, the tube c. 2.5-3.5 mm long, the limb c. 4.5-5 mm diam.; anthers coherent; style c. 0.5 mm long, the stigma with the stigmatic cone pubescent and c. 0.2 mm long.
Mericarps pubescent, 4, falling at maturity.
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Image source: fig. 538E in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Flowers: July-Nov.
N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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