Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Trachymene scapigera

Common name

Mountain trachymene

Family

Araliaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, shrubland, and stream banks. SE of Oberon, mainly in Kanangra Boyd National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.50 m high, rhizomatous, often forming dense mats. Above-ground parts die back over winter. Stems sparsely hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, 0.8–2 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, 3–5-lobed to dissected, covered by sparse long hairs. Plants with bisexual flowers or female flowers. Flowers white to pinkish, small, with 5 petals each 1.1–1.2 mm long. Umbels 10–23 mm diameer, 20–50 flowered. Flowers December–March.

Family was Apiaceae.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile wth photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10811 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description with line drawings:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trachymene~scapigera (accessed 8 January 2021)

Description above partly based on:  JM Hart and MJ Henwood  A revision of Australian Trachymene (Apiaceae: Hydrocotyloideae) (2006) Australian Systematic Botany 19:  23