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Perennial herb, prostrate, mat forming, 0.02-0.05 m high. Leaves mostly rosetted at tips of branchlets, lanceolate to elliptic, tapering to a broad, flat, petiole-like base, margins of base ciliate. Flowers pale blue or white, sessile, solitary in axils of rosette leaves. Styl e: base expanded but not surrounded by a fleshy disc. Hypanthium usually glabrous. Flowering time mid Nov.-Mar.
Perennial herb, mat-forming. Leaves mostly in a rosette at tips of branchlets, lanceolate to elliptic, tapering to a broad, flat, petiole-like base, ± 15-25 x 5 mm, margins of the base ciliate. Flowers: sessile, solitary in axils of rosette leaves; style base expanded, but not surrounded by a fleshy disc; hypanthium glabrous; corolla pale blue or white; Nov.-Mar.
Leaves (5)10–25(40) x (2)3–6(12) mm., mostly rosulate at the tips of the branches, lanceolate, elliptic or oblanceolate, acute at the apex, tapering to a broad flat petiole–like base; margin incrassate, sparsely denticulate, ± undulate, thinner and usually ciliate towards the base, otherwise leaf generally glabrous, occasionally sparsely pubescent.
A mat-forming, perennial herb. Leaves mostly rosetted at tips of branchlets. Flowers sessile, opening only 1 at a time, strictly terminal but soon overtopped by shoot from uppermost leaf axil and then appearing lateral. Base of style not surrounded by fleshy disc. Flowers pale blue or white.
Capsule 2–3 mm. long, subspherical, 10–nerved, crowned by the hardened calyx–lobes, dehiscing by an apical lid formed by the accrescent style–base, or sometimes by a ring around the base of the persistent style.
Style shorter than the corolla, eglandular, hairy below, at the base broadened to a shallow cone, thickened towards the apex, shortly 3–lobed.
Corolla 12–22 mm. long, funnel–shaped, blue to white, outside puberulous or glabrous, inside pubescent at least below; tube 6–12 mm. long.
Calyx–lobes 3–8 mm. long, united for 1–2 mm. at the base, lanceolate, acute, with incrassate, ciliate margins.
Perennial mat–forming herb with prostrate branching stems radiating from a thick taproot.
Stems glabrous or hairy, leafy and finally rough by persisting leaf–bases.
Filament–bases narrowly dilated, ciliate; anthers 2–3 mm. long.
Flowers sessile in the leaf–rosettes, opening one at a time.
Seeds 0·7–0·8 mm. long, trigonous, reticulate, red–brown.
Hypanthium 10–nerved, glabrous.
Ovary 3–locular.
