Veronica blakelyi (B.G.Briggs & Ehrend.) B.G.Briggs APNI* Synonyms: Derwentia blakelyi B.G.Briggs & Ehrend. APNI*
Parahebe sp. E sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Parahebe blakelyi (B.G.Briggs & Ehrend.) Heads APNI*
Description: Small glabrous and glaucous shrub or woody herb to 50 cm high, with one to several erect softly woody stems from a narrow rootstock; stems mostly unbranched below inflorescence and dying back after fruiting, internodes to 1.5–6 cm long.
Leaves usually recurved, V-shaped in cross section, ovate to lanceolate, mostly 2.5–5.5 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, apex ± acute, base cordate or truncate or cuneate, margins with 8–18 pairs of shallow teeth; sessile.
Racemes mostly 8–40 cm long, 15–35-flowered. Calyx lobes 3–5.5 mm long and 0.7–1.3 mm wide in fruit. Corolla 6–7 mm long, bright blue-violet.
Capsule broad-ovate, 4–6.5 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, truncate or emarginate, glabrous, glaucous.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in eucalypt forest, 650-950 m altitude in the western Blue Mtns from Clarence to Peel River and Coricudgy Range.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992); Garnock-Jones, P.J., Albach, D. & Briggs, B.G. (2007) Botanical names in Southern Hemisphere Veronica (Plantaginaceae): sect. Detzneria, sect. Hebe, and sect. Labiatoides. Taxon 56(2): 580 [comb. nov.]
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