Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hybanthus monopetalus
Common name
Slender violet-bush
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and rocky slopes. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.6 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, clustered, and alternating up the stems, 0.5–9 cm long, margins curved down. Flowers blue-mauve, sometimes white, with 4 small petals and one larger lower petal. Lower petal 7–20 mm long, usually about as wide as long, upper petals narrow, 2–3 mm long, lateral petals broad, 2–3 mm long. Flowers in elongated clusters usually 10–20 cm long, the flowers well-spaced, far longer than the leaves. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hybanthus~monopetalus (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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