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Leaves up to 25–130 x 6–18 mm., ± rosulate, flat, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate or spathulate, acute to subacute with attenuate base often narrowing into a distinct petiole, ciliate towards the base, 4 hirsute on both sides or only above, or glabrous; margin not or very slightly incrassate, ± dentate, sometimes pinnately lobed at least towards the base; midvein prominent beneath, lateral veins faint.
Tufted annual, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves mostly basal, rosulate, oblanceolate, roughly hairy, margins undulate-crenate, bluntly toothed. Flowers on 2-forked peduncles, long-pedicellate, calyx lobes triangular, corolla widely funnel-shaped, white to pale blue, 5-15 mm diam., filaments broad at base, style with 3 glands, sometimes in a continuous band below stigma, ovary glabrous, 3-locular. Capsule spheroid.
An annual herb. It loses its leaves. It grows up to 55 cm tall. It has a white taproot. The leaves are 3-13 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are flat and narrowly sword shaped or spoon shaped. The flower arrangements are short, broad and almost flat-topped. They are on branched stalks. The fruit is a round capsule with 3 chambers.
Annual, erect, 0.1-0.5 m high. Leaves ± rosulate, flat, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate or spathulate, acute, ciliate towards base. Flowers: campanulate in a lax inflorescence; stigma lobes 3 with glands present below pollen-collecting hairs; corolla with distinct tube, white, pale blue or mauve; Sep.-Jan.
Annual, erect herb, 0.1-0.5 m high. Leaves ± rosulate, flat, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate or spathulate, acute, ciliate towards base. Flowers campanulate in a lax inflorescence, white, pale blue or mauve. Stigma: lobes 3 with glands present below pollen-collecting hairs. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.
Tufted annual to 40 cm. Leaves mostly basal, oblanceolate, roughly hairy, margins undulate-crenate. Flowers in cymose panicles, cup-shaped, white to pale blue, 5-15 mm diam., filaments broad at base, style with 3 glands, sometimes in a continuous band below stigma, ovary glabrous.
Corolla 5–10 mm. long (forms with larger corollas, up to 22 mm. long, that probably belong here, occur in S. Africa and Namibia), pale blue or mauve, widely campanulate to almost rotate, deeply 5–lobed; tube 1–2 mm. long, puberulous inside near the base.
Erect annual herb, up to 0.55 m high. Leaves rosulate, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate or spathu-late, up to 25-130 x 6-18 mm. Stylar glands below base of style lobes. Testa smooth. Flowers pale blue or mauve.
Ovary 3–locular, subinferior; style somewhat shorter than the corolla, hairy or glabrous below, 3–lobed, with 3 glands present below the pollen–collecting hairs.
Inflorescence lax; pedicels up to 14–45 mm. long, glabrous; bracts and bracteoles usually ciliate at least towards the base.
Stamens with filament–bases broadly dilated to almost cross–shaped, shortly ciliate; anthers ± 2–2·5 mm. long.
Stems few to many, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hirsute or puberulous towards the base.
Seeds 0·4–0·6 mm. long, elliptic in outline, ± compressed; testa almost smooth.
Calyx–lobes 1–2–5 mm. long, narrowly triangular, entire, glabrous.
Hypanthium obovoid to hemispherical, c. 10–nerved, glabrous.
Capsule 3–locular, c. 10–nerved; valves 3, 0·8–1–2 mm. long.
Annual erect herb, 10–55 cm. tall, from a white taproot.
