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