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Nierembergia hippomanica Miers
Family Solanaceae
Nierembergia hippomanica Miers APNI*

Description: Much-branched herb with many slender erect branches, to 45 cm high, hairy with minute simple hairs.

Leaves congested, linear, 18–25 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, sessile.

Pedicels 2–5 mm long. Calyx obconical; tube 4–6 mm long, veins conspicuous; lobes narrow-triangular, 5–6 mm long. Corolla pale mauve to deep violet with yellow eye; tube 9–10 mm long, 1–2 mm diam., abruptly expanded into rotate to broad-stellate limb 15–25 mm diam., lobes rounded. Staminal filaments 5–6 mm long, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Stigma umbrella-like over anthers.

Capsule ellipsoid, 3–4 mm long.


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Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Infrequent weed of wasteland, collected from Sydney, Wellington, Dubbo and near Inverell. Native of S Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NWS, *CWS
AVH map***

Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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