Citation: Domin, Beih. Bot. Centralblatt 23, 2:291 (1908).

Synonymy: Hydrocotyle glochidiata Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:346 (1867).

Common name: None

Description:
Erect or diffuse branching annual, 2-10 cm high; leaves few, somewhat fleshy, obovate, cuneate at the base, in the apical half with 2 or 3 coarse teeth or lobes; stipules broad-obovate to reniform and auriculate, entire or minutely and irregularly denticulate.

Flowers numerous, in dense subglobular heads later elongating and becoming ovoid-oblong: bracts linear-spathulate: sepals absent.

Fruits more or less globular, only slightly laterally compressed, c. 1 mm long; mericarps hispid, with short glochidiate bristles between the prominent dorsal and intermediate ribs, deeply concave between the intermediate ribs and the very narrow commissure.

Published illustration: Domin (1908) Beih. Bot. Centralblatt 23, 2:291, t. 10 figs 4-8.

Distribution:  At edges of salt pans and salt lakes, in muddy sand.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

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