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. Description Veronica decorosa is a small shrub to high and similar width and mostly smooth. The leaves are sessile, linear to oval-linear shaped, long, 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 long, blunt or rounded, upper lobe wider with purple lines, bracts narrowly oval-shaped and long. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a broad-elliptic shaped capsule about long, wide and ribbed. 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. The specific epithet (decorus) means "graceful". 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. References Flora of South Australia decorosa Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller