Citation: Hiern, Fl . Capens. 4, 2:326 (1904).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect slender annual 3-30 cm high, simple or with erect to ascending branches produced throughout the length of the stem, glandular and eglandular-puberulent apart from the flowers; leaves widely spaced throughout, entire or obscurely toothed, at the basal 1 or 2 nodes opposite, narrow-elliptic to obovate, 3-12 x 1.5-3 mm, petiolate, higher up alternate, narrow-linear, 3-20 x 0.2-1.5 mm.

Flowers 2-7 in terminal or axillary long-pedunculate spikes; bracts narrow-linear, as long as or longer than the flower, fused to the pedicel and the base of the calyx; pedicel c. 0.5-1 mm long; calyx c. 3 mm long, 5-ribbed at the apex, with scattered glandular hairs, shortly 2-lipped, with each lip almost entire, with eglandular-ciliolate margins; corolla c. 4 mm long, yellow, glabrous outside, the lobes c. 0.7 mm long, orange-tipped in dried specimens.

Capsule broad-ellipsoid, c. 3 mm long.

	Habit, flower, calyx, stamens and pistil.
Image source: fig. 588B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Recorded in cultivated ground, with fine herbage on the side of a vehicular track, and scattered in Eucalyptus scrub.   Native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

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

Biology: Matches South African specimens in some of which, however, the stamens are longer exserted and the calyx densely glandular-puberulent.

Author: Not yet available