Citation: E. Wimmer, Annln naturh. Mus. Wien 56:370 (1948) var. simplex.

Synonymy: Lobelia simplex L., Mant. Alt. 291 (1771). W. R. Barker, Monopsis simplex (L.)E. Wimmer (Campanulaceae) a new generic record for S. Aust. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 7:135-6 (1984).

Common name: None

Description:
Procumbent to ascending herb usually with a distinct tap root, moderate- to much-branched, with long hairs at least when young becoming glabrous; leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, 6-18 x 2-3 mm, acute, with few distant coarse serrations mainly towards the apex, rarely entire.

Flowers borne raceme-like singly in the axils of the leaf-like bracts towards the apex of the branches; peduncle 15-30 mm long, erect, later spreading with the fruit upturned; sepals shortly connate, the lobes linear-triangular, 3-4 mm long, pointed, with a few long cilia towards the base; corolla deep-purple, 5.5-7 mm long, hairy outside, the tube split along the upper side, the lobes rounded to mucronate with the lower 3 broader and longer than the upper 2.

Fruit conical, smooth, 4.5-6 mm long, slightly ridged; seeds narrow-ellipsoid to almost cylindrical, c. 4 mm long, with fine vertical lines.

Published illustration: Wimmer (1953) Pflanzenreich 276b: fig. 106.

Distribution:    W.Aust.. N.S.W. Vic.   native to the southern Cape Province of South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

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