Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Seringia arborescens

Common name

None 

Family

Malvaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north of Batemans Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 8 m high. Young stems rusty-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 4–15 cm long, 15–60 mm wide, hairless or almost so on the upper surface, stellate-tomentose (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and with the main vein raised and rusty-tomentose on the lower surface, margins toothed. Flowers greenish white, with 0 petals. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, 3–5 mm long, hairy. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters. Seeds densely hairy, with a short wide wing on the back.

Family was Sterculiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Seringia~arborescens (accessed 22 October, 2019)