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Platysace clelandii (Maiden & Betche) L.A.S.Johnson
Family Apiaceae
Platysace clelandii (Maiden & Betche) L.A.S.Johnson APNI*

Synonyms: Trachymene clelandii Maiden & Betche APNI*

Description: Scrambling shrub to 30–60 cm high; stems hispid to ± villous.

Leaves fan-shaped, obovate to ± circular in outline, mostly 6–7 mm long, to 10 mm wide; lamina sparsely hispid or villous; base cuneate; apex rounded with toothed margin; teeth usually 5 or more, acute, apiculate; petiole to 1.5 mm long.

Umbels compound, 2–3 cm diam.; peduncle 1–3.5 mm long; rays 4–6; bracts linear, to 2 mm long; bracteoles linear, to 1.5 mm long. Petals white.

Fruit c. 1.5 mm long, 2–2.2 mm wide, ribs scarcely conspicuous, wrinkled and sparsely covered by short bristles, broad at the mericarp junction.


Illustration
M. Flockton

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: August–February

Distribution and occurrence: Grows among sandstone boulders in dry sclerophyll forest, from Glen Davis to Berowra.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
AVH map***

Text by J. M. Powell & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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