Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 4:132 (1868).

Synonymy: Laurentia platycalyx F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:39 (1855); Lobelia plalycalyx (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 4:183 (1864).

Common name: Salt pratia.

Description:
Procumbent dioecious perennial herbs with prostrate branches often rooting, sometimes with few hairs becoming glabrous; adventitious roots thick and little-branched; leaves usually sessile but sometimes with a petiole up to 5 mm long, linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, 5-30 x 2-6 mm, bluntly acute to rounded, entire rarely with 2-4 shallow teeth towards the apex, glabrous or with few hairs along the margin.

Fruit ellipsoid, 4-7 mm long; seeds broadly ellipsoid but somewhat compressed laterally, c. 0.7 mm long, finely pitted.

	Habit and anther column
Image source: fig. 625c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Mainly coastal and often in salt marshes but also on sandy soil often associated with limestone.   Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native 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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