Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xanthosia tasmanica
Common name
Southern Xanthosia
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Forest and heath. Coastal south of Pambula.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.2 m high. Stems and leaves hairy to sparsely hairy with long spreading hairs. Leaves 0.4–1.5 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, alternating up the stems, usually becoming hairless, deeply dissected or compound, with 3 leaflets, rarely the lateral leaflets split almost to the base, margins entire. Leaflets 0.4–1.5 cm long, 3–8 mm wide. Individual flowers with 5 white petals 1.1-1.5 mm long, and 5 sepals each 2–2.5 mm long, in mostly 1–5 flowered clusters. Bracteoles below the flowers leaf-like, green, 3–4 mm long. Flowers September–May.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Xanthosia~tasmanica (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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