Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Thesium australe
Common name
Austral Toadflax, Australian Toadflax
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassland, and herbfields, often in damp sites. Widespread, most common in Kosciuszko National Park and ACT.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m high, stems mostly arising annually from a woody rootstock. Leaves somewhat fleshy. Stems wiry, striate, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 1–4 cm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, pale green to yellow-green, tips pointed, midrib continuing down the stem. Lowest leaves scale-like. Flowers green with white margins, or greenish yellow, with 4-5 'petals' united at the base, each 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowers mostly spring and summer.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species. Vulnrtable ACT.
Vulnerable ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10802 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Thesium~australe (accessed 8 January 2021)
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