Citation: Banks & Sol. in Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo edn 2, 2:253 (1794).

Synonymy: L. graefferi Ten., Fl. Nap. Prodr. lxviii (1811); L. flexuosum sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 599 (1952), non Lag.

Common name: Mediterranean loosestrife.

Description:
Glabrous perennial or rarely annual; stems creeping and then ascending, to 50 cm or more long; leaves mostly alternate but sometimes opposite, linear to oblong or elliptic, sometimes somewhat expanded at the base, to 30 mm long and c. 10 mm broad.

Flowers solitary, in most of the leaf axils, with 2 minute membranous bracts on the short peduncle; floral tube narrowly obconical in flower and in fruit, with a ring of dark reddish markings near the base, 5-7 mm long; epicalyx segments 5 or 6, triangular-subulate, dark-tipped, c. 1 mm long; sepals 5 or 6, broadly deltate, membranous, pale, c. 1 mm long; petals 5 or 6, purplish, spreading, 5-6 mm long; stamens 5 or 6, some or all exserted.

capsule much shorter than the floral tube.

Distribution:  Grows in wet places. S.Aust.: SL, SE.   Vic.   Native to the New Zealand; Mediterranean and south-western Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — May.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A specimen from the Flinders Ranges differs in having few-flowered axillary cymes and in lacking the red spots on the floral tube but in other respects appears to be close to L. junceum.

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