Halgania brachyrhyncha is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is a small perennial shrub with blue flowers and grows in New South Wales and Queensland.
Halgania brachyrhyncha is a small, low, understory shrub high with conspicuous hairs. The leaves are elliptic to oblanceolate, tapering toward the stem, long wide, margins toothed and apex gradually tapering to a point. The blue flowers are borne at the end of the stems in loose clusters, in diameter on a pedicel long, corolla lobes long, sepals long, fused at the base and anthers long. Flowering occurs from October to January and fruit is a fleshy drupe containing one or two seeds.[1] [2]
Halgania brachyrhyncha was first formally described in 1990 by Peter G. Wilson and the description was published in the journal Telopea.[3] [4] The specific epithet (brachyrhyncha) means "short beak" a reference to the anthers.[2]
This species grows on infertile soils on ridges, hillsides in a variety of vegetation types north of Nowra and southern Queensland.[1] [2]