Veronica decorosa

Veronica decorosa, is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae and grows in South Australia. It has white flowers borne on long stems.

Veronica decorosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Veronica
Species:
V. decorosa
Binomial name
Veronica decorosa

Description

Veronica decorosa is a small shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and similar width and mostly smooth. The leaves are sessile, linear to oval-linear shaped, 1–7.5 cm (0.39–2.95 in) long, 0.5–5 mm (0.020–0.197 in) wide and the margins entire or sparsely toothed and recurved. The flowers are in a long racemes, white, occasionally purple in the centre, four lobed, each lobe 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, blunt or rounded, upper lobe wider with purple lines, bracts narrowly oval-shaped and 2–9 mm (0.079–0.354 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a broad-elliptic shaped capsule about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, 3.5 mm (0.14 in) wide and ribbed.[2]

Taxonomy and naming

Veronica decorosa was first formally described in 1853 and the description was published in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.[3] The specific epithet (decorus) means "graceful".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species grows sometimes on rocky situations, usually on moist and sheltered sites in the Flinders Ranges and south to near St Vincents Gulf.[4]

References
  1. "Veronica decorosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  2. "Veronica decorosa". eFloraSA-electronic lora of South Australia. State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. "Veronica decorosa". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  4. Briggs, B.; Ehrendorfer, F. (1992). "Derwentia decorosa". Telopea. 5 (1): 261. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
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