Erect annual or biennial herb, 15–50 cm high; branches covered with fine, spreading hairs. Leaves densely hairy, apex acute, margins entire; rosette leaves oblanceolate, 4–25 cm long, 3–25 mm wide; cauline leaves lanceolate. Bracts as long as or shorter than sepals; sepals 4–5 mm long, obtuse, connate for half to two-thirds their length, scarcely elongating in fruit, hairy; corolla regular, 6–8 mm long, blue with a white throat, lobes broad-ovate, c. 3 mm long; stamens inserted just below throat of corolla. Mericarps c. 2 mm long, with a longitudinal keeled to winged ridge on one side, pale brown; areole about as wide as or wider than base of mericarp. Flowers Sep.–Mar.
MuM, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, HSF. Also naturalised WA, SA. Native to South Africa. Known in Victoria only from near Red Cliffs, Port Fairy and near Portsea, where growing in disturbed sandy soils.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Boraginaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 387–411. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
