Leionema montanum (Hook.) Paul G.wilson

Compact decumbent shrub. Branchlets terete, stellate-puberulous in lines between prominent decurrent leaf bases. Leaves crowded, terete or clavate, to 1 cm long, obtuse, fleshy, ±flattened and somewhat channelled adaxially, rounded abaxially, smooth, glabrous abaxially. Flowers solitary in axils of uppermost leaves; pedicel 1.5–3 mm long, fleshy and swollen below calyx, glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulous; bracteoles 2 or 3, close to calyx, sepal-like. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.7 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Petals spreading, elliptic, c. 4 mm long, white or pink, glabrous. Stamens slightly exceeding petals. Gynophore c. 0.2 mm high, narrower than ovary, purple(?). Carpels 5; ovary subspherical, c. 1 mm high, irregularly corrugate, glabrous. Cocci rounded at apex and shortly rostrate on outer angle.

It is a temperate plant. It grows at higher altitudes in Tasmania. It grows down to about 1,100 m above sea level.

The leaves can be used in salads such as potato salad.