Common name: Pointed Toadflax
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort. APNI* Description: Prostrate spreading perennial, villous with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs.
Leaves in basal parts usually broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, 10–33 mm long, 7–24 mm wide, apex acuminate, base hastate or sagittate, margins toothed, smaller towards end of branches, often 4–8 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; shortly petiolate.
Pedicels 5–20 mm long. Calyx 2.5–5 mm long, segments fused only at 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 glabrescent.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *NFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A. *W.A.
Text by W. R. Barker
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Pedicels glabrous except below the calyx and at the base | subsp. elatine |
| Pedicels densely hairy throughout | subsp. crinita |
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