Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Mitrasacme paludosa

Common name

None

Family

Loganiaceae

Where found

Moist heath and damp places. North of Nowra. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Perennial herb, usually to 0.10 m high, or prostrate to sprawling. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy; with minute, more or less appressed, hairs. Leaves opposite each other, sometimes in a basal rosette, 0.4–1 cm long, 0.7–2.5 mm wide, tips pointed; margins usually curved down; surfaces hairless or hairy. Flowers white, sometimes yellowish in the throat, 3–5 mm long, tubular, the tube hairless inside, with 4 lobes each about 2 mm long. Flowers in small leafy clusters. Flowering: mostly spring–autumn.

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