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Wahlenbergia glabra P.J.Sm.
Family Campanulaceae
Wahlenbergia glabra P.J.Sm. APNI*

Synonyms: Wahlenbergia sp. A sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*

Description: Perennial, tufted, glabrous herb; stems ascending, 5–35 cm long, much-branched.

Leaves opposite or alternate, linear to narrow-elliptic, 3–27 mm long, 0.5–4 mm wide, apex mostly acute, margins flat, entire or with small callus teeth, glabrous.

Flowers solitary on stalks 1–5 cm long. Sepals 2–3.5 mm long. Corolla tube white, 3–6.5 mm long; lobes blue, 5.5–9 mm long. Style 3-fid, faintly constricted about halfway down.

Capsule semiglobose, 2–4.5 mm long, glabrous.


Type
Specimen

Flowering: throughout year.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in crevices of basalt outcrops in McPherson Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by P. J. Smith
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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