Slender, ascending to erect annual to c. 11 cm high, often branched from base, glabrescent to glabrous. Cotyledons oblong, 4–5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, often present when plant flowering. Leaf-lamina reniform, 4–12 mm across, deeply divided into 2 or 3 lobes; lobes entire or 3-toothed; petiole 1–30 mm long; stipules scarious, fringed. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, 2–3 mm diam., (3–)6–12-flowered; flowers almost sessile; peduncle 6–13 mm long. Petals green-white, often tinged purple. Fruits c. 1 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, smooth, light to dark; mericarps with dorsal and intermediate ribs prominent, obtuse, wing-like, lateral ribs inconspicuous, areas between ribs wrinkled and pitted by reticulate connections. Flowers winter and spring.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, GGr. Also WA, SA. Common in north-western Victoria where usually around saline lakes, rare in near-coastal situations around Port Phillip Bay. Often associated with chenopod shrublands.
Source:
Duretto, M.F. (1999). Apiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 256–258. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
