Family: Araliaceae
Hydrocotyle pterocarpa
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:
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In wet places and shallow water, at edges of streams.
S.Aust.: SL, SE. Vic.; Tas. New Zealand.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Dec. — March.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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