Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Selliera radicans

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, Craigieburn, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, near Sussex Inlet

Flowering plants. Photographer Jackie Miles

Carpet of non-flowering plants. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Swamp weed, Shiny Swamp-mat

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Salt marshes and near streams and lakes. Coastal. Occasionally in the ranges. Tablelands north from Lake George (north east of Canberra).

Notes

Perennial herb, flower stalks to 0.05 m high, prostrate, mat forming, rooting at the nodes. Stems woody, hairless, to 0.5 m long. Leaves in clusters along the stems, 1–11 cm long, 2–35 mm wide, glossy, spoon-shaped to elliptical, margins entire Flowers 5–12 mm long, reddish brown outside, usually whitish inside, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers mainly Spring to Autumn.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Selliera~radicans (accessed 6 February, 2021)