Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle callicarpa
Common name
Tiny Pennywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, cleared areas, and gully floors. Western Slopes.
Notes
Erect annual herb to 0.09 m high, usually grey-green or often purplish tinged. Stems often branching from the base, sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, kidney-shaped, 2–10 mm in diameter, shallowly 3–5-lobed or lobed to about midway; the lobes entire or 3-toothed, surfaces hairless or with a few long scattered hairs on one or both surfaces. Flowers small, with 5 white to purple petals. Umbels 2–3 mm in diameter, 3–15-flowered, with a stalk 2–10 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Family was Apiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~callicarpa (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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