Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Colobanthus affinis

Seeding plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Seeding? plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer R Jackson, Mt Kosciuszko

Common name

Alpine Colobanth

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Where found

Heath, very low shrubland in alpine feldmark, grassland, and herbfields, sometimes a colonizer of disturbed areas. Moist alpine areas. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Tufted perennial herb to 0.1 m tall, sometimes forming clumps to 9 cm diameter, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, crowded, 1.5–6 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, soft, grass-like, somewhat limp, tips pointed, midrib raised on the underside. Flowers with 5 broad-triangular sepals 2.5-4 mm long, persisitng at the seeding stage, and 0 petals. Flowers single. Flowering: summer.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Colobanthus~affinis (accessed 7 January, 2021)