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.
Flowering: August–February
Distribution and occurrence: Grows among sandstone boulders in dry sclerophyll forest, from Glen Davis to Berowra.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
Text by J. M. Powell & S. M. Hastings Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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