Persicaria praetermissa (Hook.f.) H.Hara APNI* Synonyms: Polygonum praetermissum Hook.f. APNI*
Description: Herb with stems creeping, prostrate to decumbent, slender, strongly retrorse-strigose.
Leaves hastate, 2.5–8 cm long, 6–17 mm wide, hairs on veins and margins antrorse to occasionally retrorse; petiole 3–12 mm long; ocrea with scattered rather spreading hairs, glabrous on upper margin.
Inflorescence with 1–6 small, rather isolated clusters borne on 2 or 3 relatively long branches at 5–15 mm intervals; only 1 mature flower per cluster at any one time. Perianth segments 2.7–4.0 mm long, pink or white.
Achene trigonous, 2.2–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2.0 mm diam., mid-brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Along the coast and Western Slopes; occasional. Widespread in eastern Australia; also India to China, southern Korea and Japan, Malesia (Philippines only). Grows on margins of swamps and lagoons.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by K. L. Wilson (1990); edited KL Wilson (Jan 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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