Common name: Wedge Oschatzia
Oschatzia cuneifolia (F.Muell.) Drude APNI* 
Description: Herb to 20 cm high with loose rhizomatous base, glabrous.
Leaves with lamina narrow-spathulate, 2.5–4 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, with usually 3–6 irregular acute teeth or lobes at the apex, glabrous; petiole 3–7 cm long, shortly sheathing.
Umbels irregularly compound, 3–9-flowered; peduncle 10–15 cm long; rays 2 or 3, 2.5–4 cm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long; bracts cuneate, 2- or 3-lobed, 1–2.5 cm long; bracteoles narrow-ovate, 2.5–5 mm long. Flowers 3–5 mm diam. Sepals minute. Petals ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, white.
Fruit ovoid, c. 3.5–4 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, evenly ribbed, glabrous.
Flowering: January–February
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subalpine and alpine herbfield, in Sphagnum bog and on gravelly river banks, south from Kosciusko district.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by J. M. Powell, except for genera with authors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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