Rhizomatous, sometimes mat-forming perennial. Leaves all basal; lamina narrowly to widely elliptic, ovate or obovate in outline, 5–45 mm long, 4–32 mm wide, entire, toothed, or bluntly 3(–5)-lobed; petioles 1–14 cm long. Umbels 1–8 per leaf-tuft, 25–50-flowered; peduncle 1.5–40 cm long; involucral bracts c. 14–20, c. linear, 5.6–14 mm long; pedicels 0.5–8 mm long. Petals ovate to obovate, 0.9–1.6 mm long, white to pale mauve; stamens 1.5–2.3 mm long; styles 1.3–1.6 mm long. Mericarps 3–4 mm long, 2.2–3.2 mm wide, smooth to wrinkled, glabrous, usually both of each pair equally developed.
Wim, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Source:
Walsh, N.G.; Borre, A. van den (1999). Trachymene. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 283–286. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
