Gratiola nana R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate mat-forming perennial, rooting at nodes, with sessile glands obscure or with sporadically with golden heads, otherwise mainly on the rachis, pedicels and sepals glabrous or sparsely to moderately finely glandular-hairy.
Leaves elliptic to narrow-oblong, 0.2–1.1 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, base cuneate, margins ± entire, sessile.
Flowers single in bract axils; bracteoles 0.5–4 mm long. Sepals 3–5 mm long. Corolla 7–12 mm long, tube green-yellow, dark-striped, the lobes pink or whitish. Staminodes usually 2.
Capsule broad-ovoid, 3.5–5 mm long, terminated by a caducous style c. 2–2.5 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in swampy ground in subalpine districts, south from the A.C.T.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by W. R. Barker
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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