Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Match-head Plant; Wiry Noon-flower

Family

Aizoaceae

Notes

Introduced shrub or perennial forb, sprawling or to 30cm tall.  Leaves 0.5-1.5cm long, about 1mm wide, more or less narrow cylindrical, hairless, warty, often falling early.  Flowers white, with many ‘petals’ in groups of 1-3 at the bases of the leaves or at the ends of short shoots.  Psilocaulon tenue in NSW.

Description and photo of flowers (as Psilocaulon tenue) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 295

PlantNET description (as Psilocaulon tenue):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Psilocaulon~tenue