Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle pterocarpa
Common name
Wing pennywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Rainforest and moist open forest, usually growing among rushes and sedges or on mossy rocks along streams. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Uncommon.
Notes
Perennial sprawling herb, hairless or becoming hairless. Stems rooting at the lower nodes, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves arising from the nodes, single or in clusters, 10–50 mm in diameter, kidney shaped, or round with cordate bases, margins scalloped, often with 3–11 very shallow broad lobes. Flowers small, with 5 petals, each about 0.75 mm long, off-white with purple blotches. Flower clusters globular, 2–3 mm in diameter, with about 5–20 flowers. Flowers spring–early autumn.
Family was Apiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~pterocarpa (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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