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Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort.
Family Plantaginaceae
Common name: Round-leaved Toadflax

Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. 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, *NT, *NWS, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. ?Tas. *S.A. *W.A.
AVH map***

Text by W. R. Barker
Taxon concept:

N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. integrifolia

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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