Euphrasia collina
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Euphrasia collina is a perennial herb or subshrub
in the genus
Euphrasia
.
Plants grow to between 5 and 60 cm high and have leaves with 1 to 6 teeth per side.The flowers may be white, blue, pink or purple, sometimes blotched with yellow on the lower petal.
It occurs in South Australia
, Victoria
, Tasmania
and New South Wales
in a wide variety of habitats including woodland, heath and grasslands, from coastal to alpine areas.
in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in 1810. There are a number of subspecies
currently recognised:
Subshrub
A subshrub or dwarf shrub is a short woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a similar term.It is distinguished from a shrub by its ground-hugging stems and lower height, with overwintering perennial woody growth typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or by being only weakly woody and/or persisting...
in the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Euphrasia
Euphrasia
Euphrasia is a genus of about 450 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae , with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are semi-parasitic on grasses and other plants...
.
Plants grow to between 5 and 60 cm high and have leaves with 1 to 6 teeth per side.The flowers may be white, blue, pink or purple, sometimes blotched with yellow on the lower petal.
It occurs in South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
and New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
in a wide variety of habitats including woodland, heath and grasslands, from coastal to alpine areas.
Taxonomy
The species was first formerly described by botanist Robert BrownRobert Brown (botanist)
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in 1810. There are a number of subspecies
Subspecies
Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
currently recognised:
- E. collina R.Br. subsp. collina
- E. collina subsp. diemenica (Spreng.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. diversicolor W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. glacialis (Wettst.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. gunnii (Du Rietz) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. lapidosa W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. muelleri (Wettst.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. nandewarensis W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. osbornii W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. paludosa (R.Br.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. speciosa (R.Br.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. tetragona (R.Br.) W.R.Barker
- E. collina subsp. trichocalycina (Gand.) W.R.Barker