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Perennial herb, mat-forming, rhizome creeping, aerial stems 0.2-0.6 m high; scabrous-pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, oblong or narrowly obovate, 30-120 x 10-25 mm, apex acute, margins coarsely incised-serrate, teeth rather distant; hispidulous on both surfaces. Inflorescences of 3-5 spikes in dichotomous cymes; spikes cylindrical; bracts lanceolate to long attenuate-subulate. Flowers purple to violet, blue-violet or mauve. Calyx cylindric, glandular-hairy, red or green. Corolla: tube 8-10 mm long, slender, cylindric, curved; limb 7-10 mm in diam., lobes broad and emarginate, median one longer. Stamens inserted near middle of tube. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Fruit: mericarps ± 2 mm long, raised-reticulate in upper part.
Perennial herb 0.2–0.4 (–1) m high; branches erect or ascending from a creeping rhizome, scabrid. Leaves sessile, rigid, oblong-ovate or narrowly obovate, 4–12 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, glabrous; base subcordate and partly clasping branch; margin coarsely and sharply serrate, often slightly revolute; apex acuminate. Inflorescence a lax terminal corymb with long branches ending in a dense spike; bracts conspicuously longer than calyx. Calyx 5-toothed, 4–6 mm long. Corolla reddish purple, pale lilac or blue-violet, 2–3 times as long as calyx; tube 8–10 mm long. Mericarps c. 2 mm long.
Perennial, mat-forming herb, up to 0.6 m high. Stems erect. Leaves sessile; blade oblong, narrowly obovate or oblong-ovate, 30-120 x 10-25 mm, base amplexicaul or subcordate, margins coarsely dentate to incised serrate. Flowers: in solitary, terminal spikes or 3-5 spikes in dichotomous cymes; bracts 2-3 x as long as calyx; corolla tube 9-10 mm long, corolla reddish or bluish purple, mauve, white in lower part; Sep.-May.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves dentate to incised-serrate, sessile, amplexicaul. Spikes very dense, pedunculate, not crowded. Bracts distinctly longer than calyx. Inflorescence glandulose. Flowers reddish purple.
For description of variety naturalised in Australia see Verbena rigida Spreng. var. rigida.
