Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Golden Pennants

Family

Haloragaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 1m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-2.5cm long, 1-3mm wide, narrow cylindrical to linear to flat.  Often becoming leafless.  Flowers yellow, with 2 petals, plus 2 coloured sepals, in clusters of 7-63 flowers at the tops of the stems.  Fruiting bodies 2-winged. 

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 535

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glischrocaryon~behrii