Common name: Small Monkey-flower
Elacholoma prostrata (Benth.) W.R.Barker & Beardsley APNI* Synonyms: Mimulus prostratus Benth. APNI*
Mimulus pusillus A.Cunn. APNI*
Elacholoma prostrata (Benth.) W.R.Barker & Beardsley APNI*
Description: Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at nodes, sparsely hairy with white non-glandular hairs, sometimes confined to younger parts and calyx rim.
Leaves joined by a ridge at nodes, ± obovate to ± elliptic, 2–6 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, apex ± acute, base ± narrow-cuneate, margins entire; sessile.
Flowers solitary in axils; pedicel 5–25 mm long. Calyx 3–7 mm long; teeth ± equal, c. 1 mm long. Corolla ± rotate; tube 6–15 mm long and gradually dilated above calyx, yellow, with red spots inside the rim white; lobes spreading, ± equal, 4–5 mm long, blue or pink, rarely white.
Capsule obovoid, 4–5 mm long.
Flowering: July–September
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in inland districts. Grows on margins of swamps or watercourses, or in temporarily inundated areas, sometimes in saline site.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A. N.T. W.A.
Text by W.R. Barker & G.J. Harden (1992)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992); modified according to Barker et al. (2012), Phytoneuron 39: 1-60
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