Platysace lanceolata 

Lance-leaf Platysace

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).

Search Criteria

 

Type

Shrub

Flowers

Form

Regular, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White, Cream

 

Petal/Sepal No.

-

 

Flowering Month

1, 2, 3, 4, 12

Fruit

Type       

Other

 

Colour

Cream, Red, Brown               

 

Other Features

-

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval, Heart-shaped

 

Length    

Short

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Stalked, Unstalked

 

Other Features

Aromatic

Bark

-

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland