Durringtonia paludosa R.J.F.Hend. & Guymer APNI* 
Description: Weak perennial herb to 1 m high supported by surrounding vegetation or decumbent; stems decussately branched, green, drying black, glabrous.
Leaves ovate to narrow-elliptic or linear-subulate, 0.8–1.5 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide but usually shorter and narrower, glabrous.
Inflorescences with ultimate cymes reduced to a single pendent flower. Male flowers with calyx 0.4–0.7 mm long, lobes triangular; corolla cream to pale red-brown, lobes oblong 2–2.5 mm long. Female flowers smaller; stigma fusiform, papillose.
Fruit orange-yellow, ellipsoid, though laterally flattened; seeds obovate c. 3 mm long.
Flowering: late spring to early summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in closed sedgeland communities in coastal swamps; not common, north from Laurieton.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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