Scientific Name: Myosurus australis

Common Name: southern mousetail

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Ranunculaceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Short-lived annual herb with a rosette of rather fleshy narrow linear leaves up to 10 cm long.

Flowers: Flowers solitary, terminal, very small and greenish-yellow.

Fruit: 100 to 300 dry, leathery achenes at the top of the flower stem in a dense slender spike up to 4 cm long.

Municipality
Southern Midlands
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Found at 2 sites, in the Southern Midlands (400m) and in the Central Plateau (925m).

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Propagation Method
Impractical Propagation material is too difficult to collect or conditions for propagation or cultivation are too specialized.

Seed Information