Mitrasacme polymorphaR.Br.

WFO wfo-0000377917 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. a Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204862897
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192824531
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. c Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192137650
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. d Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181038082
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. e Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181030361
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Will Cornwell
fig. f Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180897546
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. g Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175596926
Mitrasacme polymorpha, photographed by ronavery
fig. h ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170499696

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Mitrasacme polymorpha is native: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandVictoriaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Mitrasacme polymorpha, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 329 in flower of 330 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Mitrasacme polymorpha observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 329 of 330 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Limnophila campanuloides Benth.
  • Mitrasacme canescens R.Br.
  • Mitrasacme cinerascens R.Br.
  • Mitrasacme hirsuta C.Presl
  • Mitrasacme polymorpha var. calycina Benth.
  • Mitrasacme polymorpha var. canescens (R.Br.) Domin
  • Mitrasacme polymorpha var. squarrosa (R.Br.) Domin
  • Mitrasacme polymorpha var. typica Domin
  • Mitrasacme sieberi A.DC.
  • Mitrasacme squarrosa R.Br.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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