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.
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
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)
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