Common name: Hairy brooklime
Gratiola pubescens R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Erect to procumbent perennial herb 2.5–20 cm high, sessile glands overtopped, except for corolla, by glabrescent finely glandular-pubescence, sometimes with scattered flat non-glandular hairs; branches in larger plants creeping and rooting towards base.
Leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 0.7–2.6 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, base cuneate or stem-clasping, margins toothed.
Flowers solitary in bract axils, sometimes only 1 at a node; pedicels 1–2.5 mm long; bracteoles 3–4.5 mm long. Sepals 3.5–6 mm long. Corolla 10–12 mm long, white or pink-purple, with a yellow tube and a pale inner face of the limb, hirsute inside on the upper side. Staminodes 2.
Capsule broad-ovoid, 3.5–4.5 mm long, caducous style c. 2 mm long.
Flowering: October–March
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in damp or swampy ground, and lake margins; south from Bulahdelah.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, ST, CWS, SWS, SWP, SC
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas. W.A. S.A.
Text by W. R. Barker
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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