Citation: Hegelm., Verh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 9:18 (1867).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Matted water starwort.

Description:
Minute plant, terrestrial in areas subject to inundation; leaves all linear-obovate, 0.8-1.7 mm long, 0.4-0.7 mm wide, obscurely 3-nerved, the upper leaves not forming a rosette.

Male and female flowers occurring together in the axils of the leaves; bracteoles present, linear-triangular, 0.2-0.3 mm long, pale, deciduous; stamen 0.4-1 mm long; styles erect, 0.1-0.3 mm long.

Fruit dark-brown to greyish, almost cordate in outline, 0.5-0.6 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, keeled and only very weakly winged, commissural groove shallow, bases of the nutlets at their inner edge thickened and pushing against each other to form a small umbonate swelling.

	Fruit in three views.
Image source: fig. 552B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Mason (1959) Aust. J. Bot. 7:308-9, fig. 2 & 2A; Orchard (1980) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:192, fig. la-c.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, MU, SL, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: early part of the year to May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available