Apium prostratum subsp. howense
{{Short description|Subspecies of flowering plant}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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Apium prostratum subsp. howense is a flowering plant in the carrot family native to Australia's Lord Howe Island. The epithet howense derives from the name of that island.{{cite web |url= http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=52856 |title= Apium prostratum subsp. howense |accessdate=2014-02-26|work=Flora of Australia Online: Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 49 (1994) |first= |last= |publisher= Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) |date= }}
Description
Distribution and habitat
The subspecies is endemic to Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. There it is fairly common in sand pockets and cracks in coralline rocks on the shoreline, within the splash zone. Joseph Maiden's 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records how 'Apium australe' could be used as a culinary vegetable and also refers to it as 'Australian Celery".{{cite book | author=J. H. Maiden | year=1889 | title=The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania | publisher= Turner and Henderson, Sydney | url=https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21105097830002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=EEA&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US}}
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Category:Endemic flora of Lord Howe Island
Category:Plants described in 1979
Category:Taxa named by Philip Sydney Short
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