Family: Orobanchaceae
Parentucellia latifolia
Citation:
Caruel in Parl., Fl. ltal. 6:480 (1885).
Synonymy: Euphrasia latifolia L., Sp. Pl. 604 (1753); Bartsia latifolia (L.)Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Graec. Prodr. 6:69, t. 586 (1827), cited 'Bartschia', an orthographic variant, by some authors.
Common name: Red bartsia, common bartsia.
Description:
Slender erect annual 5-30 cm high, covered by soft glandular and stiff eglandular hairs, simple or with a few ascending branches produced from the lower nodes; leaves ovate to broad-ovate, 3-15 x 2-7 mm, serrate, the upper ones with 2 rarely 3 pairs of teeth.
Racemes dense, with a few to many subsessile flowers; calyx tubular, c. 6-7 mm long, elongating to 8-10 mm long in fruit, the tube about twice the length of the lobes, finely longitudinally ribbed; corolla about a third longer than the calyx, 8-10 mm long along the upper side, persistent on capsules, red-purple with the inner face of the lobes pink, rarely white throughout, with a slender tube and very short narrow upper and lower lips; anthers yellow.
Capsule narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, as long as the calyx, glabrous; seeds c. 0.25-0.35 mm long, smooth, brown.
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Image source: fig. 599A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of A.C.T., fig. 332; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 600.
Distribution:
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In open scrub vegetation or usually in disturbed or overgrazed moist or marshy localities with soils varying from sandy to clayey.
W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Native to the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Nov., Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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