Citation: F. Muell., Trans. Vict. Inst. 126 (1855).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Wing pennywort.

Description:
Glabrous perennial herb, rarely with a few scattered hairs; stems creeping, rooting at the lower nodes; leaves often rising from the rooting nodes, petiolate; leaf blades reniform to orbicular-cordate, 15-35 mm diam., almost entire or with 3-11 very shallow broad lobes or crenatures, the sinus very narrow or the margins overlapping at the base; petiole slender, c. 4 times as long as the blade (depending on location), stipules membranous, broad-ovate, entire.

Peduncles shorter than the petioles; heads with c. 5-20 subsessile flowers.

Fruit very flat, almost 3 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, emarginate at the base and the apex, often purple-mottled; mericarps with a dorsal wing c. 0.5 mm broad, inconspicuous intermediate and prominent lateral ribs.

Distribution:  In wet places and shallow water, at edges of streams. S.Aust.: SL, SE.   Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — March.

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