Small-leaf Raspwort: Flower

Small-leaf Raspwort (Gonocarpus tetragynus)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Rockfoils (Saxifragales)

Family:

Raspwort (Haloragaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small-leaf Raspwort (Gonocarpus tetragynus)

This Photo:

🔍Flower🔎

Thank you Hayley Pojikar Prentice for identifying and Alan Dandie for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
The leaves are only 9mm long by 2.5mm wide, with tiny petalless flowers only 2.5mm wide. The plants we found were up to 400mm high.
Notice the heavily toothed leaves; which are shiny on top and matt, almost fibrous under.

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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