Native, warm season, perennial herb, mostly 15–30 cm tall and with hairy branches. Leaves are often jointed at their base; lamina lanceolate to ovate, usually 2–7 cm long, 3–40 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, margins ± entire, upper surface with cystoliths, lower surface sometimes purple and gland-dotted. Flowerheads are elongate and terminal. Flowers are usually showy, lower ones small and often cleistogamous. Corollas are white to mauve, sometimes with darker spots on lower lobe; tube mostly 10–15 mm long and lobes 5–8 mm long. Flowering is from December to May. Grows in a variety of coastal habitats, especially rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/73840284@N04">Harry Rose</a> from South West Rocks, Australia
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