Erect herb to c. 50 cm high, spreading extensively by woody rhizomes; stems terete or indistinctly 2-ridged when young, often black-dotted. Leaves narrowly triangular or somewhat ovate, 3–15 mm long, 1–6 mm wide, margins usually undulate, usually with 1–few marginal black dots. Flowers numerous in broad, open panicles; sepals lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm long, entire or sparsely denticulate, not black-dotted; petals 5–8 mm long, yellow, not black-dotted, or with 1 subapical dot; stamens c. 15–30, about as long as petals, shortly fused into 3 bundles; styles 3. Fruit not seen. Flowering time not recorded.
Gold, NIS, VAlp. Native to the eastern Mediterranean region. Known in Victoria only by a 1908 collection from Eldorado in the north east, and Tarnagulla (between Dunolly and Inglewood) where first noted occurring as a weed in an oat crop extending into adjacent native woodland in 1965, and perhaps now successfully eradicated from that area (last seen in 2011).
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Clusiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 316–321. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
