Hydrocotyle digitata
| Hydrocotyle digitata | |
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| Herbarium specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Araliaceae |
| Genus: | Hydrocotyle |
| Species: | H. digitata
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| Binomial name | |
| Hydrocotyle digitata | |
Hydrocotyle digitata is a species of plant in the ivy family Araliaceae. It is native to parts of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is a small perennial herb with a creeping habit, leaves are trifoliate and each leaflet has a number of lobes. The inflorescences have about 10–13 very small flowers in an umbel, the fruits are mericarps about 1 mm (0.04 in) long and wide.[4][5]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]It is found in two widely disjunct populations, one on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns, Queensland, and the other in a broad area from about Warwick in southeast Queensland, to near Armidale in northeast New South Wales.[6] It grows in very wet ground among open eucalypt forest.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hydrocotyle digitata". Wildnet. Queensland Government. 2025. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ "Hydrocotyle digitata A.R.Bean & Henwood". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ "Hydrocotyle digitata A.R.Bean & Henwood". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2025. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ a b Bean, A.R.; Henwood, M.J. (2003). "Six new species of Hydrocotyle L. (Apiaceae) from Queensland". Austrobaileya. 6 (3): 543. doi:10.5962/p.299684. JSTOR 41738997.
- ^ a b F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Hydrocotyle digitata". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ "Search: species: Hydrocotyle digitata | Occurrence records". Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Australian Government. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
External links
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- Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
- Observations of Hydrocotyle on iNaturalist
- Images of this species on Flickriver.com
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