Gonocarpus elatus (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Orchard is a plant in the Haloragaceae family, order Saxifragales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Gonocarpus elatus (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Orchard

Gonocarpus elatus (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Orchard

Gonocarpus elatus, hill raspwort, is an Australian native plant in Haloragaceae, found in four south-eastern and eastern states.

Family
Genus
Gonocarpus
Order
Saxifragales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Gonocarpus elatus (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Orchard

Gonocarpus elatus, commonly known as hill raspwort, is a plant species belonging to the watermilfoil family Haloragaceae. It is native to Australia, where it occurs in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia. It was first formally described as Haloragis elata by Allan Cunningham in 1837, and was reassigned to the genus Gonocarpus by Anthony Orchard in 1975.

Photo: (c) Alan Dandie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alan Dandie · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Saxifragales Haloragaceae Gonocarpus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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