Nemesia floribunda Lehm.

Annual or possibly short-lived perennial. Stems to c. 30 cm tall, glabrous. Lvs glabrous; petioles 3–20 mm long. Lamina 1.5–6.5 × 1–2.5 cm, ovate, coarsely and irregularly serrate; base truncate, rounded or subcordate, with blade sometimes shortly attenuate; apex acute. Infl. sub-corymbose; bracts linear, mostly entire, the lowest distantly serrate. Pedicels slender, to 2 cm long, ± glandular. Sepals 3–4 mm long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate; margins often ciliate. Corolla 8–11 mm long, white; spur c. 6–7 mm long, obtuse; upper lip with rounded lobes; lower lip slightly emarginate, broad; pouch yellow and composed of dense glandular puberulence. Capsule 10–12 × 6–8 mm, broadly urceolate-oblong; base rounded; valves diverging at an obtuse angle. Seed c. 1 mm long, fusiform; wing broad, suborbicular.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Feb.–Sep.