Small slender annual, to 7(–30 outside Victoria) cm high. Lower leaves narrow-spathulate, 1–3 cm long, obtuse to acute; upper leaves linear, semi-amplexicaul, acuminate, with 3–5 parallel veins. Inflorescence much-branched; involucral bracts 3–6, linear, 3-nerved; rays 3–6, unequal, filiform; umbellules 3–6-flowered; bracteoles 3–6, linear-lanceolate or rarely narrowly-elliptic, prominently 3-veined, aristate, exceeding flowers. Fruit subglobular, c. 1.5 mm long, mericarps studded with glaucous tubercles; carpophore undivided, persistent.
LoM, Wim, Gold, GGr. Also naturalised WA, SA. Native to southern Europe. Naturalised on the western and south-western sides of Mt Arapiles where locally rather common. Fruits late spring.
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.
