Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stackhousia pulvinaris
Common name
Alpine stackhousia
Family
Celastraceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields and subalpine and alpine grasslands, often in wet areas such as swamp margins. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial much-branched herb, rooting at the nodes, forming dense mats to 0.1 m high. Hairless. Leaves thick and rather fleshy, striate, bright green to yellow-green, tips blunt. Stems rough, with conspicuous leaf scars towards the base. Leaves crowded, 0.4–1.1 cm long, 1–2 mm wide. Flowers fragrant, white to pale yellow, tubular, the tube 3.3–5.6 mm long, with 5 lobes each 2.5–5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: spring-summer. Seeds 2–3 mm long, yellowish becoming tinged with red when ripe.
Family Stackhousiaceae in PlantNET.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~pulvinaris (accessed 27 April 2021)
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