Citation: F. Muell., Linnaea 25:394 (1853). Wild parsley.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Slender glabrous annual herb; stems branched from the base, procumbent, filiform, 10-40 cm long; leaf blades reniform, 5-20 mm long, 10-40 mm broad, very thin, light-green above, paler below, usually 5-lobed from below the middle; lobes oblong to broad-obovate-cuneate; lobes usually with 3-5 coarse teeth in the upper half; petioles of lower leaves usually longer than the blades, those of the upper leaves shorter; stipules membranous, white, lanceolate, fringed.

Peduncles very thin, leaf-opposed, varying in length from 5-30 mm; umbels with 3-12 distinctly pedicellate flowers; involucre absent; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long.

Fruits laterally compressed, c. 1 mm long, c. 2 mm broad; carpophore subulate, persistent; mericarps with prominent more or less acute dorsal and semicircular intermediate ribs with a single row of small tubercles between them (sometimes smooth) and often some tubercles enclosed in the semicircular depression between the intermediate and the lateral ribs.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 543.

Distribution:  In sheltered shady or moist places between rocks, in crevices, along creeks, usually in brown sand. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL.   W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Oct.

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