Platysace lanceolata
Platysace lanceolata
Synonyms: Trachymene billardierei var. cuneata, Siebera billardierei var. myrtifolia, Siebera billardierei var. cuneta, Siebera billardierei var. ovata, Trachymene billardierei var. lanceolota, Trachymene lanceolata var. myrtifolia, Trachymene lanceolata, Trachymene billardierei var. crassifolia, Trachymene crassifolia var. cuneifolia, Trachymene billardierei var. myrtifolia, Trachymene billardierei var. conferta, Siebera billardierei, Siebera billardierei var. lanceolata, Azorella lanceolata, Trachymene lanceolata var. typica, Trachymene ovalis var. conferta, Azorella ovata, Trachymene conferta, Trachymene ovalis, Trachymene crassifolia, Fischera ovata, Trachymene ovata, Siebera billardierei var. crassifolia, Fischera lanceolata, Siebera billardierei var. conferta, Trachymene myrtifolia, Trachymene lanceolata var. conferta, Trachymene billardierei var. orbicularis, Trachymene lanceolata var. orbicularis, Trachymene lanceolata var. ovata, Siebera lanceolata, Trachymene billardierei var. ovata, Trachymene cuneata, Trachymene buxifolia, Trachymene billardierei
Botanical Description
Platysace lanceolata, commonly known as shrubby platysace, lance-leaf platysace or sometimes 'native potato', is a small evergreen shrub of the family Apiaceae, endemic to eastern Australia from south-east Queensland through New South Wales into eastern Victoria, where it grows in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy and gravelly soils. The plant typically reaches 0.5–1.5 m in height, with slender, wiry, much-branched stems arising from a stout woody rootstock from which arise large, edible tuberous roots. The leaves are alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate, narrow-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 1.5–6 cm long and 3–10 mm wide, with entire margins and a leathery texture. The plant produces compound umbels of numerous very small, white, five-petalled flowers borne on slender peduncles at the branch tips; the secondary umbels are themselves few-flowered and the overall effect is an airy, cloud-like inflorescence. Flowering occurs principally in late spring and summer. The fruit is a small, two-lobed, ribbed schizocarp characteristic of the carrot family.
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Traditional American Uses
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