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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Boraginaceae
Heliotropium asperrimum

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 493 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rough heliotrope.

Description:
Erect perennial; stems, leaves and calyx with long and short simple unicellular hairs 'and glandular hairs; leaves narrowly elliptic, suboblong to obovate, 1.5-8.5 cm long, 0.4-1.6 cm wide, shortly petiolate, the apex obtuse to acute, the margin revolute and slightly undulate.

Mericarps glabrous, 4, falling at maturity.

image of FSA3_Heliotropium_asp.jpg Flowering branch, half flower and fruit.
Image source: fig. 538B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 562.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SE.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: April — Nov.


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