Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hybanthus vernonii
Common name
Erect Violet
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, and damp depressions. Coast, ranges, eastern edge of the tablelands, and Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 1 m high. Stems hairless or rough. Leaves opposite each other, clustered, and alternating up the stems, 0.5–4.5 cm long, 0.3–5.5 mm wide, margins curved down. Sepals 1.5–5 mm long, green or mauve. Flowers blue-mauve, with 4 small petals and one larger lower petal. Lower petal 9–16 mm long, upper petals narrow-oblong, 1-veined, lateral petals 1.5–3 mm long, several-veined. Flowers single. Flowering: winter to summer.
subsp. vernonii: Stems and leaves hairless, upper leaves linear, the lower leaves usually lance head shaped, 0.5–4.5 cm long, 1–4 mm wide.
Rare Vic.
subsp. scaber: Stems and leaves rough, all about the same shape, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 0.3–5.5 mm wide, sometimes the tips sharply 3-pointed.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hybanthus~vernonii (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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