Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 441 (1810).

Synonymy: Limnophila morgania F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 6:104 (1868), nom. illegit., partly; Stemodia morgania (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 10:89 (1876), nom. illegit., partly.

Common name: Bluerod, smooth bluerod, morgan flower.

Description:
Faintly scented perennial, to c. 40 cm high, tending to sucker, with branches more or less erect, with minute aculeate eglandular hairs dense on pedicels and calyx, absent or sparse below; leaves opposite or 3 or 4 in whorls, at the base of the plant lanceolate to linear, to 2-5 cm long, narrow-cuneate, denticulate, shorter and narrower higher up.

Flowers in showy racemes, solitary in the axils of linear bracts; pedicels 0.8-2.5 cm long; sepals 3-6 mm long; corolla 6-12 mm long along the upper side, blue-purple, with 2 long white rarely suffused streaks behind the lower clefts, the lower lip spreading, somewhat recurved.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 599; Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plants in Australia, fig. 164h.

Distribution:  Common in clayey soil, particularly grey cracking clays, in open areas subject to temporary inundation.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: recorded in S.Aust. in Feb., May, Aug. — Dec., but possibly throughout the year.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Reported by Basedow to be cooked and eaten by Aborigines north of Innamincka; their aboriginal name: inmuda, inmorda.

Taxonomic notes: Closely allied to the following species. Probably a taxon distinct from the typical coastal central Qld plants which diverge in flower shape and pedicel size.

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