Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xanthosia atkinsoniana
Common name
Tufted xanthosia
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Bega.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.6 m high, Stems sparsely hairy, almost hairless. Leaves mostly basal, a few alternating up the stems, 2–4 cm long, 15–40 mm wide, deeply dissected into 3 lobes 1.5–3 cm long, the lobes often divided again, the whole leaf almost compound. Leaf margins scalloped, toothed or slashed into narrow pointed lobes, lower surface sparsely stellate-hairy. Individual flowers white to pinkish, with 5 narrow petals about 1.5 mm long, and 5 petal-like sepals each about 1–1.6 mm long, in few flowered clusters, occasionally single. Flower clusters look like individual flowers. Bracteoles below each cluster 2-3, petal-like, white, 3–8 mm long. Flower sub-clusters with 3-5 'flowers', some individual flowers amongst them, with 16-36 flowers in all. Flowers September–April.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Xanthosia~atkinsoniana (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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