Citation: Benth. in A. DC., Prod. 10:373 (1846).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Small monkey-flower.

Description:
Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at the nodes, with a dense soft white eglandular pubescence sometimes confined to younger parts and the calyx rim, with internodes 0.3-1.5 cm long, those on young shoots less than 0.5 cm; leaves connected by a ridge across the nodes, sessile, ovate to elliptic, sometimes narrowly, rarely broadly so, 0.2-0.6 cm long, narrow-cuneate to narrow-attenuate, entire, more or less acute.

Pedicels 0.5-2.5 cm long; calyx narrow-cylindrical to -campanulate, 3-5 mm long, with equal teeth much shorter than the tube; corolla more or less rotate, the tube vertical, 2-3 times .the length of the calyx and gradually dilated above it, yellow, with red spots inside, the rim white, the lobes spreading, more or less equal, c. 4-5 mm long, blue or pink, rarely white.

	Habit, stem, flower in two views.
Image source: fig. 585C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Williams (1979) Native plants of Queensland 1:196; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 598.

Distribution:  Open margins of swamps, creeks or river flats, or in temporarily inundated areas, in clay or sand, sometimes saline.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Sept. (LE), April (MU).

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The S.Aust. plants conform with the central Australian populations. Larger-leaved, sparingly minutely puberulent specimens occur on the western plains of N.S.W. and Qld.

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