Common name: Chinese Violet, Ganges Primrose, Philippine Violet, Creeping Foxglove
Asystasia gangetica subsp. micrantha (Nees) Ensermu APNI* Description: Lightly pubescent to more or less glabrous perennial herb. Stems to 130 cm, procumbent and rooting or clambering, impenetrable mat-forming.
Leaves 3–8 cm long, ovate to elliptic, thin-textured, bright green.
Flowers borne in one-sided racemes; corolla tubular - campanulate, tube approximately 1.4 - 1.8 cm long, upper and lateral lobes more or less reflexed, white, usually with two rows of violet markings on lowermost lobe just into throat.
Fruit a capsule, 2.5 cm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Isolated infestations of subsp. micrantha are known from the Tweed River valley, Kempsey, Port Macquarie, the lower Hunter Valley and Lake Macquarie. Also naturalised in Qld and NT. Native to Africa. Commonly on sandy soils, in disturbed situations.
NSW subdivisions: *NC
Only A. gangetica subsp. micrantha (Nees) Ensermu has been recorded in the wild in NSW (subsp. gangetica is found in cultivation and naturalised in other states). See also NSW WeedWise profile.
Text by R.M. Barker and P. Lu-Irving (2024)
Taxon concept: R.M. Barker (Flora of Australia, Acanthaceae manuscript)
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