Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Trachymene incisa subsp. incisa

Umbel and developing 'seeds'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Coffs Harbour

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, near Ulladulla

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