Hydrocotyle geraniifolia
F.Muell. Forest PennywortCreeping or ascending perennial with lax stems to several metres long, rooting at nodes near base. Leaf-lamina deeply palmate, strongly discolorous, 3–10 cm across; segments 3–5, often deeply lobed, lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, 1–6.5 cm long, apex attenuate, toothed; teeth often bristly, hispid along midvein and lateral veins on upper surface, glabrescent or strigose on lower surface; petiole 10–20 cm long; stipules membranous, fringed. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, occasionally with a secondary branch, 4–8 mm diam., 15–20-flowered, peduncle 2.5–7.5 cm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Petals white. Fruits c. 1.5 mm long and wide; mericarp dorsal rib extending to form a wing, lateral ones prominent, areas between ribs tuberculate or smooth Flowers summer
GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, Strz, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW. Common from the Dandenong Ranges to East Gippsland, growing in wet sclerophyll forest and cool-temperate rainforest. There are nineteenth-century collections of this species from the Colac-Forrest area of the Otway Range but these have not been substantiated in recent times.
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