Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Nertera granadensis

Common name

Matted nertera

Family

 Rubiaceae

Where found

Alpine herbfields, on rocks near water, wet soil, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb, prostrate. Stems to about 20 cm long, more or less rooting at the nodes, often forming dense mats. Hairless. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 0.15–0.8 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, oval to almost round, hairless, margins flat to curved down, tips more or less blunt, sometimes with a mucro. Flowers yellowish green or pinkish, with a bell-shaped tube about 1.5 mm long, and 4-5 lobes about as long as the tube. Flowers single. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit fleshy, orange-red, oval or round, 3–4 mm wide.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nertera~granadensis 
(accessed 23 January, 2021)