Family: Plantaginaceae
Veronica calycina
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 435 (1810).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Hairy speedwell, forest speedwell.
Description:
Perennial herb with erect to ascending branches 5-40 cm long, arising from the stolons, hirsute with spreading white eglandular hairs of varying lengths, predominantly in 2 rows on branches, lining or on lower side of leaves, bracts and sepals and in 1 row on the rhachis and pedicels, scattered or absent elsewhere; leaves opposite, connected across the nodes by a ridge, with petioles 2-10 mm long, 2-3 mm long in distal parts, the blade ovate to broad-ovate, 9-30 x 8-20 mm, coarsely serrate, often purple-flushed, with minor veins prominent below.
Racemes in upper axils, 1-6-flowered, the pedicels 3-20 mm long, the bracts sometimes almost petiolate, the blade elliptic to obovate, 3-9 mm long, attenuate, entire; sepals 4, obovate-elliptic, 3-4.5 mm long, enlarging in fruit to 7-7.5 mm long, free; corolla blue to lilac, the 4 lobes c. 4-6 mm long, rounded; stamens with anthers broad and 0.8-1 mm long; stigma 0.1-0.15 mm diam.
Capsule greatly compressed, loculicidal, broad-obovate, 4.5-5.8 x 5.5-6 mm, eglandular-ciliate, truncate, the persistent style 2-2.5 mm long.
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Image source: fig. 596A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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In sclerophyllous woodland and shrubland, in shade or in marshy areas.
S.Aust.: KI, SE. W.Aust.; ?Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: late Oct. — Dec. (Jan. in Tas.).
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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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