Micrantheum hexandrum Hook.f. APNI* 
Description: Erect shrubs to c. 2 m high, ± glabrous, branches sometimes pubescent.
Leaves oblong to narrow-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, 8–15 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate.
Flowers 1–3 in axils. Male flowers on peduncle to c. 8 mm long, female flowers on shorter peduncle, but lengthening to 5 mm in fruit. Male perianth segments 3 mm long; stamens 6 or 9.
Capsule 6–7 mm long, c. 6 mm wide, with 3 thick divergent lobes at the top.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Found in shallow soils on granite outcrops on the tablelands or along rivers around Sydney.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
Micrantheum was formerly placed in Euphorbiaceae.
Text by T.A. James & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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