Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Mitrasacme alsinoides

Common name

None

Family

Loganiaceae

Where found

Moist places. Sydney area and Blue Mountains.

Notes

Annual herb to about 0.21 m high, sometimes sprawling. Stems sparsely hairy to hairy with minute, more or less appressed, hairs. Leaves opposite each other, sometimes in a basal rosette, usually 0.2–1 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, tips pointed; margins flat; surfaces hairless or with a few hairs. Flowers white, sometimes yellowish in the throat, 5–7 mm long, tubular, the tube hairy inside, with 4 lobes each 2–2.5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: mostly spring–autumn.

PlantNET description with line drawing and photos:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Mitrasacme~alsinoides  (accessed 24 January, 2021)