Aphanes australis Rydb.

Small, often ± slender, sparsely pilose, greyish green to yellowish green herb, sparingly to much-branched near base, 15–80–(200) mm high, ± decumbent; stems usually slender, long-pilose; internodes usually visible. Lvs cauline; petiole up to 3 mm long and winged; blade (3)–4–6–(8) × 4–8–(10) mm, 3-partite with each segment ± flabellate and shallowly to deeply divided into 2–5–(7), oblong, obtuse or subacute lobes, with scattered hairs or silky pilose on both surfaces; stipules to 3–(4.5) mm long, adnate to petiole, divided into several lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate lobes. Infl. axillary, of small cymes, ± sessile, usually < and hidden by investing stipules; fls sessile or shortly pedicellate. Fr. 1–1.7 mm long; hypanthium ellipsoid, flattened, slightly narrowed below teeth, pale yellow to brown, ribbed, with short hairs, often dense especially in upper part; calyx teeth 0.3–0.5 mm long, triangular to oblong, ± connivent, usually with short hairs on back and sometimes with long hairs on margins; epicalyx minute or 0.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Aphanes inexspectata W.Lippert]

Flowering: Oct.–Feb.–(Jul.)