Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Liparophyllum exaltatum
Common name
None
Family
Menyanthaceae
Where found
Aquatic in stationary or slow-flowing water to 50 cm deep in swamps or ephemeral pools. Coast and ranges north of Batemans Bay; and in Nadgee Nature Reserve.
Notes
Perennial herb to 1.5 m high. Not stoloniferous. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, mostly longer than broad, thick-textured, matt, margins entire or rarely scalloped to toothed, bases rounded or shallowly cordate, upper and lower surfaces about the same colour. Leaves emerging above the water. Flowers yellow, 16–30 mm in diameter, with 4–5 petals joined together at the base. Flowers in open branched clusters. Flowers spring to early autumn.
Was Villarsia exaltata.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Liparophyllum~exaltatum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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