Subshrub with prostrate branches, more or less hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves broad-ovate to oblong-spathulate, 1.5–7 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, hirsute to glabrescent, sessile or shortly petiolate. Flowers solitary, subsessile; calyx tubular, 4.5–5 mm long, teeth triangular, c. one-third the length of the tube, hirsute outside and inside; corolla white, tube 4.5–5 mm long, lobes oblong-elliptic, 2–3 mm long, acute; stamens shortly exserted, filaments attached just below the throat; ovary completely or partially 2-celled, stigmas capitate. Capsule c. 3 mm long. Flowers mainly spring and summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, HSF, HNF, Strz. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. A widespread plant of coastal saltmarshes and inland saline sites such as brackish swamps and the edges of salt lakes.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Convolvulaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 365–375. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
