Citation: Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 2:33, t. 163 (1802).

Synonymy: S. pedicellaris F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:231 (1874).

Common name: None

Description:
Densely glandular hairy, viscid, strongly aromatic, robust perennial to c. 80 cm high, with branches decumbent to erect; leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of 3, obovate to elliptic, usually narrowly so, more or less auriculate, serrate, acute, at the base of the plant 3-6 cm long, shorter higher up and on young branches.

Flowers in racemes or panicles, solitary in the axils of small to large leafy bracts; pedicels 0.5-2 cm long; sepals 3-5 mm long; corolla 5-9 mm long along the upper side, blue-purple, the lower lip forward-directed to down-curved, with spreading lobes, with a yellow patch behind in the mouth.

	Habit, leaf, flower in two views and fruit.
Image source: fig. 587C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Sandy to stony soil of creek and river beds, in hills or surrounding plains. S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.   India. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April, July — Sept. (in arid N.T. all year).

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

Biology: No text

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