Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Trachymene incisa subsp. incisa

Common name

A trachymene

Family

Araliaceae

Where found

Forest, heath, cleared areas, and rock crevices. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north of Bermagui.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.80 m high. Stems sparsely hairy to almost hairless. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant, and alternating up the stems, 1.4–6.5 cm long, 15–100 mm wide, deeply 3–5-lobed to dissected. Flowers white or rarely pink, small, with 5 petals each 0.9–2.2 mm long. Umbels 7–40 mm in diameter, 30–120 flowered. Flowers mainly September-April.

Family was Apiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trachymene~incisa (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:  23-24