Family: Apiaceae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 1m high with slender hairy stems.
Flowers: Tiny, white to cream, star-like flowers borne in terminal compound umbels 1.5-3cm diameter
Flowering: December-April
Fruit: A tiny warty dry fruit about 2mm across.
Leaves: Lanceolate to elliptic, and sometimes cordate, usually up to 1-5cm long and up to 1.5cm wide, stalkless or short stalked and usually with a pointed tip. If crushed the leaves have a carrot-like smell.
Habitat: Usually in gullies in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Umbel of small white flowers. Elliptic leaves with carrot smell when crushed.
Name:
Platysace From Greek = flat-shield (referring to its fruit).
lanceolata From Latin lancea = lance or spear and atus = like (referring to the shape of its leaves).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Cream, Red, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Heart-shaped |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked, Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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