Star Fruit

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Damasonium minus

Erect plant to 1 m high with floating and/or emergent heart-shaped leaves with 3-5 parallel veins and many finer young narrow leaves. White or pink flowers around a green centre occurring in whorls of leafless branching stalks.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Damasonium australe
Distinctive Features

Aquatic plant with heart-shaped leaves, flowers in whorls on branching stems and a characteristic star-shaped fruit reminiscent of the spokes on a wheel.
Biology

Annual or short-lived perennial. Occurs in slow moving or still water.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Oct-Feb
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Alismatales
Family
Alismataceae
Genus
Damasonium
Species
minus

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

A major weed of rice crops, biologically controlled by a mycoherbicide.

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Native Status
Native