Platysace linearifolia

Platysace linearifolia is a small evergreen shrublet of the Apiaceae family, endemic to eastern Australia, where it occurs on sandstone heathlands and open woodlands of New South Wales. Plants grow as low, much-branched, wiry-stemmed shrubs 30 to 80 centimetres tall, often forming loose, intricate clumps. The stems are slender, glabrous, and finely ridged. Leaves are alternate, simple, very narrowly linear, 1 to 3 centimetres long and barely 1 millimetre wide, glabrous, with entire margins and a single inconspicuous midvein; they resemble those of a small ericaceous shrub more than a typical umbellifer. Inflorescences are small terminal or upper-axillary compound umbels of tiny white to pinkish-tinged flowers; each flower is about 2 millimetres across, with five petals and five stamens. Fruits are small, dry, laterally compressed schizocarps with smooth or finely ridged surfaces, splitting into two mericarps. The genus Platysace develops swollen underground tubers in some species.