Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Scleranthus brockiei
Brock Knawel
Caryophyllaceae
Subalpine to alpine grassland. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT.
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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