Smooth Raspwort
Habit
Murray Mallee Region
Smooth Raspwort
Young Leaves
 
                      
Smooth Raspwort (Haloragis acutangula)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Rockfoils (Saxifragales)
Family: Raspwort (Haloragaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Smooth Raspwort (Haloragis acutangula)
This Photo:     🔍Red Stems🔎

Thank you Denzel Murfet for identifying, Andrew Thornhill for confirming and Darren Schmitke, Ralph Foster & Daniel Duval for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
We thought this was the endangered species, Haloragis odontocarpa forma pterocarpa.
It's still a rare plant, in abundance after 2 years of fire recovery in the area it was found.

Copyright © 2020-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 05-Sep-2020
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)