Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Abutilon oxycarpum var. oxycarpum

Common name

Straggly lantern-bush, Lantern bush

Family

Malvaceae

Where found

Rainforest margins, woodland, along streams, regrowth after clearing, and rocky slopes. Mainly ranges north of near Cathcart. Occasionally coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m tall.  Stems densely hairy with simple, stellate, and glandular hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-8 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, hairy, margins scalloped, bases rounded to cordate, tips pointed. Flowers yellow to orange, 10-20 mm in diameter, with 5 petals, single or in few flowered clusters. Flowers Summer to Autumn.

Varieties not recognised in NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Abutilon~oxycarpum   (accessed 3 April, 2021)