Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Polymeria calycina

Common name

None

Family

Convolvulaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, heath, and grassy sites. Usually within 5 km of the coast, tnorth from Bermagui.

One record on disturbed ground on a ridgeline north west of Bega.

Notes

Perennial herb with trailing and twining stems. Moderately to densely hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1–6.5 cm long, 3–20 mm wide, tips barely pointed to rounded and notched, surfaces more or less hairy; margins entire, base with rounded or pointed lobes. Flowers purple-violet to pink, with paler hairy lengthwise bands and a paler yellowish green to whitish throat, funnel-shaped, with 5 lobes, 7–15 mm long, 7–19 mm in diameter. Stigma with 4 or more lobes. Sepals free from each other. Flowers in 1–3-flowered clusters. Flowering: throughout the year, mainly spring–autumn.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Polymeria~calycina (accessed 1 February, 2021)