Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Haloragodendron gibsonii

Dried specimens. © Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. Plant at Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan, Blue Mouintains

Common name

None

Family

Haloragaceae

Where found

Open forest, heath, rocky areas, and stream banks.  Blue Mountains National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high, hairless. Stems 4-angled to narrowly winged. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5-2.8 cm long, 2–6 mm  wide, margins toothed with reddish teeth. Flowers with 4 cream petals each 6–14 mm long. Flowers single. Seed cases more or less oval, weakly 4-angled and with a few coarse protuberances in the lower half, 4.5–5 mm long and 2.5–4 mm broad.

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