Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Callitriche sonderi
Common name
Matted Water-starwort
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Damp areas subject to flooding. Occasional on the tablelands and Western Slopes. Rare eslewhere. Montague Island off Narooma.
Notes
Annual herb, prostrate to erect, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.08-0.5 cm long, 0.4-1.5 mm wide, margins smooth, tips blunt. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers small, with 0 petals, a male and a female flower in a pair at the base of opposite leaves, often a pair of flowers at the base of each leaf of a pair of leaves.
Mature seed cases are necessary for identification to species level.
Family was Callitrichaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitriche~sonderi (accessed 23 April 2021)
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