Citation: DC., Prod. 4:63 (1830).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Kangaroo Island pennywort.

Description:
Very slender glabrous procumbent annual; stem branched from the base, 2-20 cm long, prostrate, not rooting at the nodes, finally ascending, rarely erect when growing between taller plants or unbranched when depauperate; leaf blades reniform, c. 5 mm broad, bluntly 5-7-lobed; petioles very short; stipules membranous, entire.

Umbels sessile or shortly pedunculate, with 2-5 (rarely 6) pedicellate flowers; petals ovate-triangular, acute.

Fruiting pedicels 1-2 mm long; fruits very flat, c. 2 mm long, c. 2.5 mm broad; carpophore slender, cylindrical, slightly thickened to almost 2-lobed at the apex, persistent; dorsal ribs prominent, almost winged; intermediate ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs more or less prominent; styles minute, spreading and appressed to the mericarps.

Distribution:  Usually in moist places between mosses on granite outcrops, also in boggy heath and moist sand. S.Aust.: YP, KI.   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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: This species may no longer occur in S.Aust. It was collected only once in this State (by J.G.O. Tepper in 1886 at Karatta). The English name above for this species, which is not uncommon in south-west W.Aust., is quite inappropriate.

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