Xanthosia ternifolia

Xanthosia ternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae and is native to Tasmania and New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with trifoliate leaves, the segments egg-shaped, and white flowers in a compound umbel up to 4 flowers.

Description

Xanthosia ternifolia is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its stems and leaves covered with woolly hairs. Its leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets egg-shaped long and long, the edges with three lobes. The flowers are arranged in a on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in a compound umbel on a peduncle up to long with up to 4 flowers. There are yellow petal-like involucral bracts long at the base of the flowers. The sepals are long and the petals are white, long. Flowering occurs from September to December.

Taxonomy and naming

Xanthosia ternifolia was first formally described in 2000 by J.M.Hart and Murray J. Henwood in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet means "three-leaved".

Distribution and habitat

This species of xanthosia grows in heathland and eucalypt woodland in Tasmania and on the far south coast of New South Wales.