Botanical name

Cyphia linarioides

Family

Lobeliaceae

Common Name

Baroe
Cyphia linarioides
Cyphia linarioides
Cyphia linarioides
Cyphia linarioides

Description

Erect, sometimes weakly twining tuberous geophyte up to 30cm. Leaves are often reduced, linear, lanceolate, sometimes shortly lobed below; flowers in a slender, secund (to one side), terminal raceme, flowers laterally split, white to mauve spotted, 7-9mm long; stamens 5-6mm long, 2 anthers are bearded.

Habitat

Clay soils, lower slopes

Flower Date

January to March