Platysace clelandii, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is small shrub with fan-shaped leaves and white flowers.
Platysace clelandii is a small, scrambling shrub to high and stems with long, upright, rigid hairs to soft, straight hairs. The leaves are fan-shaped, more or less circular to oval-shaped, usually long, up to wide, 3-5 lobes, base wedge-shaped, apex sharply toothed and on a petiole long. The white flowers are borne in umbels, in diameter, 4-6 rays and linear-shaped bracteoles up to long. Flowering occurs from August to February and the fruit about long, wide, slightly ribbed, wrinkled and sparingly covered in short bristles.[1] [2]
In 1912 the species was named Trachymene clelandii by Joseph Maiden and Daniel Ludwig Ernst Betche.[3] [4] In 1962 Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson changed the name to Platysace clelandii and the description was published in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium.[5] The specific epithet (clelandii) honours John Burton Cleland collector of the type specimen.[6]
Platysace clelandii grows in open, dry forests and hillsides amongst sandstone rocks from Glen Davis to Berowra.[1]