Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Mitrasacme serpyllifolia
Thyme Mitrewort
Loganiaceae
Woodland, heath, and moist and swampy sites. Widespread, but not on the Western Slopes west of the Hume Highway.
Perennial herb, prostrate, often mat-forming or sprawling. Stems sparsely hairy with minute, more or less appressed, hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2–1.2 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, tips blunt; margins flat to slightly curved down; often fringed, surfaces hairless. Flowers white, sometimes yellowish in the throat, rarely all yellowish to greenish, 1.5–2 mm long, tubular, with 4 lobes 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowers most of the year.
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=Mitrasacme~serpyllifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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