Hydrocotyle moschata

Perennial herb, mat-forming; stems slender, creeping, rooting at nodes. Roots fibrous. Plants usually hispid to pilose. Leaves simple; lamina orbicular-cordate, 5–20 (–25) mm across, divided to ¼–⅓ (–½) of radius into 5–7 lobes, moderately hairy on the upper and lower surface, discolorous, the upper surface usually dull mid green, sometimes with a reddish margin, lower surface paler; lobes each again usually 3-lobed and finely serrate; basal sinus narrow; petiole 0.8–4.5 cm long, moderately hairy, clad in patent to retrorse white hairs; stipules simple often red-dotted, ciliate or toothed. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, c. 20–25-flowered (in Victorian plants); peduncle 0.3–1 cm long, equal to or shorter than the leaves, sparsely to densely hairy; flowers sessile to subsessile. Petals white, creamish white, white suffused with red-purple in upper ½, or reddish-purple. Fruits 0.8–1.3 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, crowded into heads 2–4 mm diam., flattened, apex emarginate, base truncate, glabrous, red-brown when ripe; mericarps convex, acute on dorsal margin, with 1 acute rib on each face. Flowers late Spring. (based on one Victorian collection).