Creeping perennial with slender stems, rooting at nodes, occasionally mat-forming or ascending, hairy. Leaf-lamina orbicular-cordate to reniform, 6–60 mm across, 3–7-lobed; lobes shallow to c. half the radius of the lamina, mostly acute, margins crenate; petiole to c. 28 cm long; stipules membranous, entire. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, globose, 3–6 mm diam., 3–15-flowered; peduncle 7–30 mm long; pedicels to 1.5 mm long. Petals yellow, green or purple, at anthesis wider than ovary. Fruits c. 1.5 mm long and wide, evenly olive-brown; mericarps smooth, ribs inconspicuous or slightly angular Flowers summer.
GipP, EGL, EGU, HSF, MonT, HFE. Also Qld, NSW. In Victoria restricted to stream banks (often in warm-temperate rainforest) of eastern Victoria.
There is marked variation in leaf size, and in some areas small-leaved (to 1 cm across) variants grow mixed with large-leaved (to 6 cm across) variants.
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.
