Citation: Benth. in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 384 (1848).

Synonymy: M. glabra sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 509 (1926), partly, auct. non R. Br.; Limnophila morgania F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 61:104 (1868), nom. illegit., partly; Stemodia morgania (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 10:89 (1876), nom. illegit., partly.

Common name: Bluerod, blue top, blueflower, morgan flower, free-flowering morgania.

Description:
Faintly scented perennial to over 80 cm high, sometimes suckering, the branches more or less erect, glabrous but rarely for sparse tiny aculeate eglandular hairs; leaves opposite or 3 or 4 in whorls, glabrous but rarely for similar aculeate hairs, at the base of the plant obovate to narrow-linear, 1-5 cm long, narrow-cuneate, denticulate, shorter higher up.

Flowers in showy racemes or ?thyrse, 2 or 3 in the axils of the bracts (1 in young parts); pedicels 0.2-0.4 rarely 1 cm long, more or less glabrous; sepals 3-6 mm long, more or less glabrous; corolla 4-7 mm long along the upper side, blue-purple, the tube white at the base, yellow distally, the lower lip spreading, recurved.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 599; Beadle (1984) Students flora of north-eastern New South Wales, fig. 361C.

Distribution:  In often saline sands, loams or clays, in temporarily inundated, depressed areas.   All mainland States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: This and the following species are purported to be poisonous but distasteful to sheep and possibly horses.

Author: Not yet available