Androcalva viscidula (Guymer) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock APNI* Synonyms: Commersonia viscidula Guymer APNI*
Description: Erect shrub, 1.5–3 m high
Leaves ovate, mostly 1.2–10.5 cm long, 8.5–55 mm wide, base unequal, tapering or obtuse, margin entire, irregularly finely toothed towards apex; upper surface densely hairy with sessile, white, stellate hairs with 4–6 erect arms, lower surface and veins densely hairy with sessile, white, stellate hairs that have 6–8 erect arms; petiole 2.5–11.5 mm long. Juvenile leaves up to c. 13 cm long, to c. 70 mm wide, discolorous, green to mid-green.
Inflorescences cymes 22–28-flowered, much longer than petioles. Calyx 2.8–4 mm long. Petals 3.3–3.5 mm long, white or cream-coloured throughout.
Capsule 7–12.5 mm diam., wings conspicuous, up to 7.5 mm wide bristles rigid, 2–3 mm long. Fruits summer.
Distribution and occurrence: In open woodland and eucalypt forest, shrubland and Leptospermum heathland, in rocky areas, on hill slopes and along creek lines, in sandy alluvial soil to rocky pavements.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
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): 343-344. Also refer G.P. Guymer (2005), Austrobaileya 7(1): 233-235
Text by B.J. Conn (2014); A.E. Orme (2020);
Taxon concept: Wilkins and Whitlock (2011)
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