Erect, 30–100 cm high. Leaves densely hairy, apex acute or acuminate, margins flat to slightly undulate; rosette leaves ovate-oblong or ovate, 10–40 cm long, 3–7 cm wide; cauline leaves ovate. Inflorescences with long-peduncle; bracts as long as or longer than sepals. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm long, acute or obtuse, elongating to c. 8 mm in fruit, hairy; corolla 5–8 mm long, bright blue with a white throat, lobes suborbicular, 3–5 mm long, longer than tube; stamens inserted just below throat of corolla-tube. Mericarps 3–4.5 mm long, brown; areole narrower than base of mericarp. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
VVP, CVU, HSF, HNF, Strz. Also naturalised Tas. In Victoria, known only from the Dandenong Ranges, Mitta Mitta and Mt Macedon, persisting in sites of abandoned gardens or weakly escaping from cultivation.
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.
