PlantNET Home DONATE TODAY | PlantNET Home | Search NSW Flora | Contact Us  
FloraOnline
Introduction
Plant Name Search
Index Search
Spatial Search
Identification Keys
Classification
Glossary
WeedAlert
Telopea Journal
Other Data Sources
NEW SOUTH WALES FLORA ONLINE Printable Page

Androcalva procumbens (Maiden & Betche) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock
Family Malvaceae
Androcalva procumbens (Maiden & Betche) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock APNI*

Synonyms: Commersonia procumbens (Maiden & Betche) Guymer APNI*

Description: Prostrate shrub with slender trailing stems to 30 cm long arising from woody stolons; plants stellate-hairy in all parts.

Leaves ovate to narrowly ovate, often oblique, 5–30 mm long, 5–20 mm wide, (juvenile leaves often larger, to 60 mm long x 35 mm wide) apex obtuse, margin irregularly crenate or lobed; upper surface green and sprinkled with stellate hairs, lower surface densely white-tomentose; petiole mostly 6–10 mm long.

Inflorescences cymes few-flowered, shorter than petioles. Calyx c. 2 mm long. Petals c. 2 mm long, pinkish.

Capsule c. 6–8 mm diam., stellate hairs on bristles dense, long; fruits summer-autumn.


Habit
Photo R. Jensen

Flower
Photo R. Jensen

Fruit
Photo R. Jensen

Distribution and occurrence: In sandy sites mainly confined to the Dubbo;-Mendooran;-and Gilgandra region, also in Pilliga and Nymagee areas; rare.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP

Threatened species: Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
AVH map***

This species was previously included in the genus Commersonia. It was transferred to the genus Androcalva, see Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (2011), A new Australian genus, Androcalva, separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(5): 334-335

Text by G.J. Harden; A.E. Orme (2020)
Taxon concept: Wilkins and Whitlock (2011)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
  Privacy | Copyright | Disclaimer | About PlantNET | Cite PlantNET