Wahlenbergia hirsuta (Edgew.) Tuyn

Annual ± erect herb, 4–30 cm. tall.. Stem usually with numerous widely spreading branches, ± hirsute.. Leaves sessile to subpetiolate, narrowly oblanceolate to obovate or broadly elliptic to ovate, 10–55 mm. long, 4–25 mm. wide, obtuse to subacute, rarely almost acuminate, with attenuate to cuneate base, ± hirsute; margin cartilaginous, undulate-dentate; midvein and lateral veins prominent beneath.. Inflorescence lax, spreading; pedicels 5–20 mm. long, with very short but usually dense pubescence, often mixed with longer hairs.. Hypanthium hemispherical, 5-nerved, ± hirsute.. Calyx-lobes 1–3(–5) mm. long.. Corolla 1.5–4 mm. long, blue to pale blue or white, split almost to the base into lanceolate lobes, glabrous or hairy outside.. Stamens with filament-bases ± rhombic, ciliate; anthers 0.5–1 mm. long.. Ovary 3-locular, semi-inferior; style about as long as or longer than the corolla, thickened in the upper part, eglandular, subcapitate or shortly 3-lobed at the apex, glabrous or hairy below.. Capsule 3-locular, 5-nerved; valves 3, 1–2.5 mm. long.. Seeds elliptic in outline with acute ends, trigonous, 0.4–0.6 mm. long; testa almost smooth, brown or sometimes almost black.. Fig. 5/A–E.