Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides
Common name
Shining penywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Dry forest, under shrubs, in gardens, lawns, moist areas, along streams, and swamps. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial sprawling herb, with creeping stems below or above ground in the litter, rooting at the nodes. Occasionally mat-forming. Stems hairless to hairy or bristly. Leaves single or in clusters, arising from the nodes of creeping stems, 5–33 mm in diameter, round, cordate, or kidney shaped, margins scalloped, often shallowly (rarely deeply) 3–7-lobed, both surfaces more or less sparsely bristly. Flowers with no smell, with 5 petals about 0.75 mm long, yellow-white, often purple tinged. Flower clusters head-like, less than 12-flowered, often 4-6-flowered, 2–5 mm in diameter. Flowering: spring–autumn.
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~sibthorpioides (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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