Lobelia browniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, annual plant with narrow leaves and one-sided racemes of blue flowers with long, soft hairs in the centre.
Lobelia browniana is an erect, succulent or semi-succulent annual herb that typically grows to a height of up to and often has reddish stems and only a few leaves. The leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are borne in one-sided racemes, each flower on a pedicel usually long. The sepals are long, the petals blue and long with two lips. The centre lobe of the lower lip is the longest at . Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is an elliptic to oblong capsule long.[1] [2] [3]
Lobelia browniana was first formally described in 1819 by Josef August Schultes in Systema Vegetabilium.[4] [5] The taxon had been given the name Lobelia stricta in 1810 by Robert Brown but the name was illegitimate.[6] [7]
This lobelia grows in forest and woodland in scattered locations in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania.[8]