Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Kelleria dieffenbachii
Common name
Alpine Kelleria
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Very low shrubland in alpine feldmark. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Small creeping shrub or perennial herb to about 0.05 m high, forming tufts or patches to 30 cm diameter; often much branched and intertwined. Stems slightly fleshy. Branchlets with prominent leaf scars towards the base, sometimes reddish. Leaves alternating along the stems, overlapping each other, 0.15-0.4 cm long, 0.2-1 mm wide, stiff, margins fringed, a conspicuous tuft of white hairs at the tips, becoming hairless with age. Flowers unisexual or bisexual. Flowers about 1.5 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, tubular, with 4 white petal-like sepals. Flowers in 1–5-flowered clusters.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Kelleria~dieffenbachii (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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