Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Viola fuscoviolacea
Dusky violet
Violaceae
Alpine herbfields and damp sites along streams. Kosciuszko National Park, ACT, tablelands, and ranges.
Perennial herb, stoloniferous. Flower stalks to 0.025 m high. Hairless. Leaves tufted, mostly 0.5–1.2 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, broadly oval to almost diamond-shaped, margins scalloped to coarsely toothed, bases wedge-shaped and tapering into the stalk. Flowers with 5 petals, blackish-violet, rarely paler. Petals 2–3 mm long. Flowers inconspicuous. Flowers single. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
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=Viola~fuscoviolacea (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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