Velleia parvisepta Carolin APNI* 
Description: Perennial herb, glabrous.
Leaves oblanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, toothed or lobed.
Scapes erect or ascending, to 40 cm high; bracteoles free, linear to oblanceolate, to 10 mm long. Sepals 3, free; upper one elliptic, not cordate, 7–8 mm long. Corolla 8–12 mm long, shortly spurred, yellow, pubescent outside, almost glabrous inside, with enations; wings almost to base of inferior lobes, c. 1 mm wide. Indusium depressed-ovate, c. 1 mm wide.
Capsule ± globose, 4–5 mm diam., glabrous; seeds circular, 2 mm diam., punctate; wing narrow.
Flowering: September–January
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in damp situations in sclerophyll forest, from Dubbo area to Warrumbungle N.P.
NSW subdivisions: NT, CT, NWS, CWS
Text by R. C. Carolin
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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