Euphrasia collina subsp. diversicolor
Plants 10–45 cm high; branches developing at ground-level; glandular hairs present on branches, leaves, rachis, bracts and calyces, but (in Victorian populations) absent from lower parts of plant. Upper leaves 5–17 mm long, with 1–6 pairs of teeth, base rounded to truncate, rarely cuneate. Calyx externally with glandular hairs (0.05–)0.1–0.2 mm long. Corollas with yellow spot behind lowest lobe, the lower lobes emarginate to obtuse, externally with eglandular and glandular hairs; anthers 1.7–3.0 mm long, with rear awns 0.25–0.6 mm long. Seeds 0.9–1.9 mm long. Flowers ?Dec.–Feb.
VAlp. Also NSW. Confined in Victoria to subalpine Eucalyptus pauciflora woodland on the Cobberas.
The New South Wales populations from the Snowy Mountains to the immediate north differ from southern populations by their glandular indumentum extending to the lower parts of the plant, their longer glandular hairs and their alpine herbfield habitat.
Barker, W.R. (1999). Scrophulariaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 483–528. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
