Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle acutiloba
Common name
A Pennywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Forest, along streams, and swampy places. Coast, ranges, and the ACT. Occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Creeping perennial herb, rooting at the nodes, occasionally mat forming or ascending, hairy. Leaves arising from the nodes, single or in clusters, 0.6-6 cm long, 6–60 mm wide, 3–7-lobed, the lobe tips mostly pointed, margins scalloped. A marked variation in leaf size, and in some areas small leaved (to 10 mm in diameter) variants grow mixed with large leaved (to 60 mm in diameter) variants. Flowers about 2 mm in diameter, with 5 petals, yellow, green or purple. Flower clusters globular, 3–6 mm in diameter, 3–20 flowered, opening 2-3 at any time. Flowers summer.
Family was Apiaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~acutiloba (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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