Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oreomyrrhis pulvinifica
Common name
Cushion caraway
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Herbfields usually above the treeline, wet creek banks, and in bogs. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.1 m high, usually mat-forming. Flower stalks hairy to hairless. Leaves basal, compound, 0.5–2 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, with 7–11 dissected to linear leaflets each 0.3–0.8 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, hairless except for the finely fringed margins; basal sheaths fringed, tips pointed. Flowers with 5 white petals 0.8 to about 2 mm long, in 5–12-flowered clusters. Flowering: summer-autumn. 'Seeds' dark brown.
Endangered Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oreomyrrhis~pulvinifica (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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