Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:21, t. 21 (1862).

Synonymy: Dicrastylis doranii sensu Tate, Rep. Horn Exped. 174 (1896), partly.

Common name: None

Description:
Erect grey shrub 1-2 m high; stem branched, branchlets densely grey-tomentose; leaves decussate, sessile or shortly petiolate, broad-ovate to elliptic-ovate, with broadly revolute margins, 3-6.5 cm long, 1.2-3 cm broad, densely and shortly greyish-tomentose, with major veins conspicuous underneath; petiole 0-4 mm long.

Inflorescence terminal; spikes cylindrical, greyish-tomentose, 3-8.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam.; flowers 5-merous, sessile or subsessile; pedicels 1-2 mm long; calyx tubular, 5-lobed at the top, densely greyish-tomentose outside, glabrous inside; lobes deltoid, obtuse, 1-2 mm long; tube more or less cylindrical, 2.5-3 mm long; corolla blue, 5-lobed above, tubular below, glabrous outside, villous-tomentose in the throat, 6-8 mm long; lobes narrow-acuminate, 2.5-4 mm long; tube more or less cylindrical, glabrous inside near the base, 3.5-4 mm long; stamens 5, much exserted, inserted at the summit of the corolla tube; filaments filiform, glabrous, 2.5-3 mm long; anthers oblong, pale-brown; ovary globose, glabrous, densely glandular, 0.8-1.3 mm diam.; style much exserted, filiform, glabrous, 5-7 mm long, with a stigma shortly notched.

Fruit obovoid-globose, sparsely glandular, 2.5-3 mm diam., often 1-seeded.

	Flowering branch. bract, flower and opened flower.
Image source: fig. 550C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Munir (1978) Brunonia 1:605, fig. 38; Munir in Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 401.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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