Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brunoniella pumilio

Flower and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Cudmirrah Nature Reserve, north east of Milton

Common name

Dwarf Brunoniella, Dwarf Blue Trumpet

Family

Acanthaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland, often on sandstone. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.1 m tall, sprawling. Stems often flattened, more or less hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–2 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, both leaves of each pair the same size, margins more or less entire, lower surface paler than upper surface. Flowers blue or mauve to purple, tubular, with 5 lobes, the tube 9–11 mm long; lobes 5–10 mm long. Flowers single or in pairs. Calyx segments more than 1 mm wide in the basal half, calyx margins with short hairs often pressed close to the surface. Flowers most of the year. Usually flowers after fire.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brunoniella~pumilio  (accessed 6 January, 2021)