Viola caleyana

A herbaceous perennial with stems to 0.3 metres long and often trailing, not really forming dense colonies.

It has a patchy occurrence in NSW, within the coastal and tablelands subdivisions, found from just south of the Queensland border, (east of Stanthorpe), occurring in disjunct patches to the south, as far as north-eastern Victoria as well as Albury. It is also found in northern Victoria.

It is typically found near swamps as well as wet sclerophyll forest and woodland including rainforest margins.

Viola spp. have simple and alternate leaves, usually with stipules present. In this species, leaves are clustered to scattered, to 5 cm long, by 4 cm wide, generally heart-shaped to broad arrow-shaped (cordate), mid to light green with crenate margins.

Viola spp. typically produce solitary flowers with 5 sepals and 5 petals with a zygomophic shape (can only be equally folded one way), with 4 more-or-less even petals and a larger anterior one, arranged almost in a rotate shape. In this species, flowers are produced solitarily in leaf axils, on stalks to 8 cm long, above the foliage, with flowers about 2 cm across, white to pale violet (sometimes 4 petals white and the anterior with purple markings); occurring in Spring to Summer.

The fruit is a capsule, to 9 mm long, that releases seed from valves. The small seeds turn from cream to dark maroon or pale brown when ripe.