Hydrocotyle digitata

Hydrocotyle digitata is a species of plant in the ivy family Araliaceae. It is native to parts of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is a small perennial herb with a creeping habit, leaves are trifoliate and each leaflet has a number of lobes. The inflorescences have about 10–13 very small flowers in an umbel, the fruits are mericarps about long and wide.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in two widely disjunct populations, one on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns, Queensland, and the other in a broad area from about Warwick in southeast Queensland, to near Armidale in northeast New South Wales. It grows in very wet ground among open eucalypt forest.