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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Boraginaceae
Heliotropium ovalifolium

Citation: Forsskål, Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 47 (1775).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Erect annual or perennial; stems, leaves and calyx with dense appressed simple unicellular hairs; leaves obovate to elliptic or ovate (often narrowly), 1-4 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm wide, shortly to long-petiolate, the apex acute to obtuse, the margin not revolute or undulate.

Description:
Inflorescence a usually unbranched cyme, circinnate; calyx not accrescent; corolla cream with the throat yellow, outside with simple unicellular hairs, inside glabrous, salverform, the tube c. 2-3 mm long, the limb c. 3.5-4.5 mm diam.; anthers coherent; style very short, the stigma with the stigmatic cone pubescent and c. 0.5-1 mm long.

Mericarps pubescent, 4, falling at maturity.

image of FSA3_Heliotropium_ova.jpg Flowering branch, half flower and fruit.
Image source: fig. 539A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Grows in sandy and rocky situations.

  W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.   Africa and Asia.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Jan — Dec.


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

Biology: Not Applicable

Taxonomic notes: In S.Aust. known only from 1 collection made by J. Murray in 1862 at Cooper Creek.

Author: Not yet available


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