Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Nertera granadensis
Common name
Matted nertera
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields, on rocks near water, wet soil, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb, prostrate. Stems to about 20 cm long, more or less rooting at the nodes, often forming dense mats. Hairless. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 0.15–0.8 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, oval to almost round, hairless, margins flat to curved down, tips more or less blunt, sometimes with a mucro. Flowers yellowish green or pinkish, with a bell-shaped tube about 1.5 mm long, and 4-5 lobes about as long as the tube. Flowers single. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit fleshy, orange-red, oval or round, 3–4 mm wide.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nertera~granadensis
(accessed 23 January, 2021)
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