Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Scleranthus brockiei
Common name
Brock Knawel
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Subalpine to alpine grassland. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT.
Notes
Dense, compact, cushion-like perennial herb. Stems to 0.12 m long, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2-1.3 cm long, 0.3–0.9 mm wide, keeled, curved, hairless; tips with a small abrupt point; margins very narrow, membranous, warty, rarely with minute teeth to wavy. Flowers green, tubular, with 5 sepals 0.4–0.8 mm long, overlapping at the base, and 0 petals. Stamen 1, enclosed within the calyx, falling early. Flowers paired. Flowering: Nov–March.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scleranthus~brockiei (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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