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Hydrocotyle laxiflora

Hydrocotyle laxiflora
Photo: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Native range
Queensland to SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hydrocotyle laxiflora commonly known as stinking pennywort, is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It has hairy, lobed leaves and cream coloured flowers and is endemic to Australia.

Where it grows

Stinking pennywort grows in shady, moist, loamy or humus rich soils in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.

Other Hydrocotyle plants

American marshpennywort · Largeleaf pennywort · Hydrocotyle digitata · Forest Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hexagona · Hairy Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hitchcockii · Nepalese Pennywort · Musky marshpennywort · Hydrocotyle phoenix · Whorled marshpennywort · Floating marshpennywort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hydrocotyle laxiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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