Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trachymene humilis subsp. humilis
Common name
Alpine trachymene
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Alpine and subalpine woodland, open shrubland, subalpine herbfields and grassland. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges south from Monga National Park..
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m high, rhizomatous. Stems sparsely hairy. Leaves in basal rosette, 0.5–4.5 cm long, 4–32 mm wide, entire to 3-7-lobed, hairless or very sparsely hairy. Flowers white to pink or pale mauve, with 5 petals each 0.9–1.7 mm long. Umbels 9–23 mm in diameter, with 20–50 flowers or more. Flowering: summer.
Family was Apiaceae.
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=Trachymene~humilis (accessed 9 February, 2021)
Description above partly based on: JM Hart and MJ Henwood A revision of Australian Trachymene (Apiaceae: Hydrocotyloideae) (2006) Australian Systematic Botany 19: 21
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