Citation: Ewart & Rees, Proc. R. Soc. Vic. 23:58 (1911).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial shrubs to 40 cm high, much-branched with branches thin and wiry, erect to almost virgate usually densely covered with double-ended appressed hairs soon wearing off the stems; leaves sessile, entire, linear to linear-elliptic, 0.3-0.5 x 0.1-0.2 cm, obtuse to rounded, fiat to slightly convex below, covered with appressed double-ended hairs.

Inflorescence usually reduced to a single terminal flower, with pedicels 4-10 mm long; sepals connate to almost half their length, equal, triangular, 4-5 mm long and scarcely elongating after flowering, acute; corolla rotate, deep-blue, with double-ended hairs outside, 6-8 mm long, with lobes lanceolate; stamens with free filaments c. 1 mm long, inserted in the throat of the corolla tube, with anthers exposed in an erect column around the style, narrowly ovoid, c. 3 mm long and with an equally long stiffly erect appendage, hairy and particularly with hooked hairs on the inside; ovary conical to almost cylindrical, rounded and with a terminal style 7-9 mm long, with an insignificant terminal stigma.

Fruit indehiscent, drupaceous, with 1 or 2 seeds, brown.

	Flowering branch.
Image source: fig. 537C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept. Fig. 537C.

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

Biology: Plants of H. cyanea from the northern EP are superficially similar except that they have usually more than 3 flowers per inflorescence and glandular hairs at least on the pedicels in addition to the double-ended ones.

Author: Not yet available