Slender herb 1–8 cm high, usually simple, sometimes few-branched from near base. Leaves oblanceolate or obovate to lanceolate or ovate, 2–10 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, often congested at base. Flowers 1–few, on erect pedicels to 4 cm long. Calyx c. cupular, 2–6 mm long, strongly 4-angled (sometimes with a narrow ridge between each angle), lobes at each angle firm, tooth-like, 0.5–1 mm long, the intervening margin membranous, often ruminate; corolla yellow, tubular part subequal to but much narrower than calyx, lobes spreading, broadly ovate or obovate, 1.5–3 mm long. Capsule broadly ellipsoid, 2–5 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, ACT. Native to south-western USA and western South America. Locally common on winter-wet soils and mossy rock ledges and crevices; mostly north of the Great Dividing Range, but scattered in dryish areas to the south. Sometimes occurring with Cicendia filiformis.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1999). Gentianaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 310–321. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
