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Trachymene humilis (Hook.f.) Benth. subsp. humilis Family Araliaceae
Trachymene humilis subsp. humilis (Hook.f.) Benth. APNI*

Description: Perennial herb, to 40 cm high with a stout rootstock, glabrous or almost so.

Leaves in basal rosette; lamina elliptic to ovate, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.2–2.5 cm wide, margins entire to 5–7 lobed; petiole 1–13 cm long.

Umbels 9–23 mm diam., 24–44 flowered on peduncles arising from the base, 6–40 cm long. Bracts 12–16, 4–12 mm long. Flowers bisexual. Petals 1.2–1.7 mm long, white to pink. Ovary 2-locular.

Fruit broad ovate, 2–3.5 mm long, brown; both mericarps maturing. Mericarps 2–3 mm wide, smooth or rugose. Carpophores entire, with four apical appendages, 0.5–1.0 mm long.


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Flowering: Flowers January–February

Distribution and occurrence: Found in alpine and subalpine woodland, open scrub, subalpine herbfields and grassland, rarely above 1500 m altitude; south from Namadgee N.P. (west of Canberra).
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
AVH map***

Formerly in Apiaceae.

Text by J.M. Hart
Taxon concept: J.M. Hart, 2002

The single subspecies in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW.

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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