Xanthosia tridentata
DC. Hill XanthosiaErect to spreading shrub to 30 cm high; branches slender and diffuse, hirsute or glabrescent, young shoots sparsely stellate-hairy. Leaves alternate, cuneate to elliptic, 6–15(–20) mm long, 2–8 mm wide, discolorous, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy, abaxial surface with an off-white tomentum or rarely glabrous to sparsely tomentose, apex 3(–5)-notched or rarely entire, base narrowed, margins somewhat recurved; petiole 1–5 mm long. Inflorescence terminal and leaf-opposed, simple or compound; peduncles often reflexed, 2.5–12 mm long; bracts usually c. 4 mm long; umbels 1–3-flowered. Sepals 2–3 mm long, peltate, acute; petals c. 1.5 mm long, pale green to cream, sometimes with pink margin; nectary glabrous. Fruit 2.5–3 mm long, mericarps evenly and strongly ribbed. Flowers winter (fruit persisting to summer).
GipP, CVU, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, Strz, HFE, VAlp. Also WA, NSW, Tas. Occasional in heathland, heathy woodland and open-forest in the Dandenong-Powelltown area, Wilsons Promontory and East Gippsland, usually on sandy or gravelly soils. .
Duretto, M.F.; Hart, J.M. (1999). Xanthosia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 265–268. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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