Common name: Twining Toadflax
Kickxia elatine subsp. crinita (Mabille) Greuter APNI* Synonyms: Kickxia sieberi (Rchb.) Dörfl. APNI*
Kickxia elatine subsp. sieberi (Rchb.) Hayek APNI*
Description: Prostrate spreading perennial, villous with long non-glandular and shroter glandular hairs.
Leaves in basal parts usually broadly elliptic to broad-ovate, 10–33 mm long, 7–24 mm wide, apex acuminate, base hastate or saggitate, margins toothed, smaller towards endog branches, often 4–8 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; shortly petiolate.
Pedicles densley hairy throughtout. Sepals 2.5–5 mm long, fused only at the base, not united in fruit. Corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long; tube white; spur white, 5–7 mm long, curved; upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, and lower lip pale yellow.
Capsule subglobose, 3–4 mm long, thin walled, brown-white, non-glandular- and glandular-pubescent, at length glabresent.
Flowering: Flowers January–April, June.
Distribution and occurrence: South from Inerell district. Native of S Eur. Naturalised in gardens, stubble, roadsides and creekbeds.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *NFWP, *NT
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by W.R. Barker
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW vol. 3 (1992)
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