This is a small shrub, growing up to 60 cm high. Leaves are linear to 25 mm long, folded lengthways, with the tip usually 3-toothed. The flowers are in short terminal cymes, each 5-lobed flower being about 10 mm across, and blue in colour.

Flowering plant
Hattah Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, 2nd October 1991

Halgania cyanea is found in mallee communities. It is locally common in north-western Victoria and also occurs in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.

The foliage is food for some Caterpillars, for example :

Cremnophora angasii ( AGARISTINAE, NOCTUIDAE )

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(updated 28 December2009)