Euphrasia ramulosa W.R.Barker APNI* 
Description: Erect perennial herb or subshrub 25–50 cm high, much-branched from base, densely hairy with short non-glandular or sometimes glandular hairs.
Upper stem leaves obovate to spathulate, 5.5–9.0 mm long, 2.5–5.5 mm wide, margins crenate to toothed with 1–3 pairs of teeth; ± petiolate.
Racemes > 30-flowered. Calyx 4.2–6.5 mm long, midribs scabrous. Corolla 8.5–11 mm long, white with purple striations and a small yellow patch at base of upper filaments; tube 5.5–8 mm long, hairy except for glabrous base. Stamen filaments glabrous or hairy; anthers 1.4–2.1 mm long, connectives glabrous.
Capsule 5–6 mm long, glabrous with a few bristles at apex.
Flowering: summer–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in moist to boggy areas in wet and dry sclerophyll forest; Point Lookout-Ebor area.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by W. R. Barker
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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