Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Damasonium minus
Common name
Starfruit
Family
Alismataceae
Where found
In shallow freshwater in a range of habitats. Widespread, mainly Sydney area and the Westrrn Slopes. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 1 m tall. Leaves at the base of the plant, 1.5-10 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, hairless, bases rounded to cordate. Flowers about 6 mm in diameter, with 3 white to pink petals 2-3 mm long, in whorls with a single flower open at a time, in open branched clusters. Flowers early summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Damasonium~minus (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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