Kickxia elatine
(L.) Dumort.Prostrate spreading perennial, villous with long eglandular and shorter glandular hairs. Leaves in basal parts usually broad-elliptic to -ovate, 10–33 mm long, 7–24 mm wide, smaller towards end of branches, where often 4–8 mm long and 3–6 mm wide, apex acuminate, base hastate or sagittate, margins toothed; shortly petiolate. Pedicels 5–20 mm long. Calyx 2.5–5 mm long, segments fused only at base, not united in fruit; corolla 2.5–7.5 mm long, tube white, spur white, 5–7 mm long, curved, upper lip purple to brown-purple-fronted, lower lip pale yellow. Capsule subglobose, 3–4 mm long, thin-walled, brown-white, with eglandular and glandular hairs, becoming glabrous; seeds pitted.
MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGL, HSF, Strz.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Barker, W.R. (1999). Scrophulariaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 483–528. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
