Common name: Round-leaved Toadflax
Kickxia spuria subsp. integrifolia (Brot.) R.Fern. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate to ascending perennial herb, villous with long non-glandular and shorter glandular hairs.
Leaves on main branches broad-ovate, 10–38 mm long, 10–30 mm wide, apex ± broad-acute, base cordate, margins entire; leaves smaller at end of branches and on short laterals, 3–7 mm long, 2–6 mm wide; shortly petiolate.
Pedicels 3–15 mm long, villous. Calyx 3–5.5 mm long, segments free in flower, enlarging and united in fruit. Corolla 7–8 mm long; spur 2–5 mm long, curved; upper lip purple-fronted, lower lip yellow.
Capsule depressed-globose, 3–4 mm long, thin-walled, light-brown, glandular-pubescent.
Flowering: November–April
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in moist sites; not common, south from Tamworth district. Native of Eur. & W Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NWS, *CWS, *NT
Other Australian states: *Vic. ?Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by WR Barker
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW vol. 3 (1992)
| The single subspecies in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW. |
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