Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Abutilon oxycarpum var. oxycarpum

Flower, seed case, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Mt Annan Botanic Gardens near Campbelltown, NSW

Seed cases, flower buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Roma and Taroom, Qld.

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Roma and Taroom, Qld.

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)