Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gonocarpus teucrioides
Common name
Raspwort, Germander raspwort
Family
Haloragaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Erect perennial herb or shrub to 0.9 m high. Stems 4-angled; rough, sparsely to densely hairy with spreading coarse hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–2.2 cm long, 3–13 mm wide, margins thickened, and with 10–12 small teeth. Flowers with 4 whitish or green to red hooded petals each 2.6–3.3 mm long, and 8 stamens. Flowers in spike-like clusters. Flowers Oct.–Jan. Seed cases silver-grey, oval, about 1.5 mm long, 8-ribbed with 2 or 3 oblique hard protuberances between the ribs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gonocarpus~teucrioides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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