Scientific Name: Hydrocotyle comocarpa
Common Name: fringefruit pennywort
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Araliaceae
Threatened Species Status: Rare
Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.
Form Description: Annual herb with deeply divided, mostly hairless leaves, on hairy stalks. It has yellow or white outgrowths at the base of the leaf stalks. Usually branches from the base and spreads along the ground.
Flowers: 10-20 flowers in a flat-topped head.
Fruit: Mericarp – oval shaped, slightly flattened and with a wrinkly or ridged surface. It is 2mm long, and has a row of thin dry hairs, up to 1mm long, at the tip.
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Habitat Notes
Recorded only once on Flinders Island, on shallow soil on a ridge crest with other forbs, shrubs and Eucalyptus nitida.
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Collection
As seed collection is tedious propagation is generally by division, which is easy.
Seed Treatment Notes
No treatment required.
Cutting & Division Information
Propagated from cuttings, or by division of rhizomes, which is easy. Rooted segments may be heeled into their final positions so long as they are kept well-watered until established.