Dwarf Aphelia: Flower, finished

Class:

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

Order:

Grasses & Sedges (Poales)

Family:

Small Herb (Centrolepidaceae)

Species:

Dwarf Aphelia (Aphelia pumilio)

This Photo:

Flower, finished

Thank you Peri Coleman for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
A strange little plant with petalless flowers. Not much larger than moss, the top of the flowers stand at ~10mm, with leaves around 20mm long. The flowers are a fan shape array of bracts.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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