Mackinlaya confusa
Mackinlaya confusa is a plant in the carrot, fennel and parsley family Apiaceae that is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It was first described in 1909.
Description
Mackinlaya confusa is a shrub growing up to tall, usually unbranched. The compound leaves are held on petioles up to long, with 5–7 leaflets arranged around a common attachment point. The leaflets are, measure up to long and wide, and their margins may be smooth, toothed or lobed.The inflorescence is and takes the form of an umbel of umbels of umbels - that is, a number of stalks of equal length emanate from a single point on the plant, which in turn branch from a common point into more stalks, and these finally branch into a number of flower stalks, again of common length and attachment point, and each carrying a single flower. Individual flowers are about diameter and may be white, cream or green.
The fruit when ripe is a glaucous 2-lobed drupe about long and wide, which may be blue, purple, black or reddish. The remnants of the and usually persist at the apex, and they contain 1 or 2 cream to pale brown seeds.