Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acaena x anserovina
Common name
Hybrid burr
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy sites, and roadsides. Western edge of the ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Western Slopes south of Tumut.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m tall. Stolons often present. 'Seeds' with many hooked spines, which stick to clothing. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–13 cm long, compound, with 11-19 leaflets, each 0.8-2 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, upper surface shiny green and hairless, lower surface more or less glaucous, and sparsely hairy, mostly on the veins and margins, margins deeply lobed and curved down. Flowers and 'seeds' in globular or oval heads 4–15 mm in diameter with a few flowers/'seeds' scattered on the stems lower down. Flowers small, each with 4 sepals and 0 petals. Stamens dark purple to cream; style white. Seeding head 10–25 mm in diameter.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
A hybrid between Acaena ovina/Acaena echinata and Acaena novae-zelandiae.
Acaena anserovina in PlantNET.
PlantNET description (as Acaena anserovina): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acaena~anserovina (accessed 2 April 2021)
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