Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 932 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Decumbent to suberect annual herbs with a tap root and branched mainly from the base, glabrous; leaves spathulate with a petiole up to 10 mm long and a long cuneate base at the base of the plant, becoming sessile and oblanceolate to linear-elliptic on the branches, the blade 8-25 x 3-20 mm, obtuse to acute, bluntly to sharply serrate, with scattered spreading hairs mainly on the lower leaves.

Inflorescence loosely cymose with leaf-like to linear bracts; pedicels up to 30 mm long; sepals shortly connate, the lobes linear-triangular, 2.5-4 mm long, pointed, glabrous; corolla blue, 8-11 mm long along the lower lip, the tube slightly paler and split along the upper surface, the upper 2 lobes linear, the 3 lobes of the lower lip subequal, obovate, deep-blue with yellow spots in front of the throat; anther-column with dense apical tufts of hairs on 2 shorter lower anthers and with scattered hairs on the upper half of the 3 longer upper anthers.

Fruit obconical, 4-5 mm long; seeds broadly ellipsoid and slightly laterally compressed, c. 0.4 mm long, shiny.

	Habit.
Image source: fig. 623b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Locally common on dunes. S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE.   Native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Dec. (2 records).

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

Biology: No text

Uses: A species long in cultivation and with numerous varieties.

Author: Not yet available