Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Haloragis exalata subsp. exalata
Square raspwort
Haloragaceae
Damp places near streams. Coastal north from Cuttagee Lake south of Bermagui. Kosciuszko National Park. Rarely elsewhere.
Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Stems more or less square, 4-ribbed, hairless to finely rough. Leaves opposite each other below, alternating up the stems just below the flowers, usually 6–10 cm long, 13-25 mm wide, with coarsely toothed margins. Flowers with 4 yellow-green to reddish petals each 2.5-3.3 mm long, and 4 styles, in clusters of 3-15 flowers. Seed cases oval, 2-2.5 mm long, with 4 ribs, smooth to corrugated (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see).
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.
NSW Department of Environment and Heritage Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10392 (accessed 19 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Haloragis~exalata (accessed 19 April 2021)
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