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Trithuria occidentalis

Trithuria occidentalis
Photo: TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Trithuria occidentalis is a tiny hydroannual aquatic herb from south-western Australia, grown only in wet or seasonally flooded ground. It is a rare, wild-collected species and is not normally cultivated.

Family
Hydatellaceae (Hydatell family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the root zone constantly wet or submerged in shallow water.
Soil
Wet mud or waterlogged sandy soil.
How easy
Hard
Native range
WSW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Trithuria occidentalis is a species of plant in the family Hydatellaceae endemic to Western Australia.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Western Australia, where it is restricted to a small area north-east from Perth.

Other Trithuria plants

Trithuria austinensis · Trithuria australis · Trithuria bibracteata · Trithuria cookeana · Trithuria cowieana · Trithuria filamentosa · Trithuria fitzgeraldii · Trithuria inconspicua subsp. brevistyla · Trithuria inconspicua · Trithuria konkanensis · Trithuria lanterna · Trithuria polybracteata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trithuria occidentalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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