Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acalypha nemorum

Common name

Large-leaf acalypha

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Where found

Rainforest (upright) and exposed headlands (prostrate). Coast and ranges north from from the Nowra district.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m tall or sprawling to prostrate. Bark flaky. Stems densely hairy with simple hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-15 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, variable in shape, both surfaces usually densely hairy, rarely more or less hairless; veins prominent, 3-veined at the base, upper surface wrinkled between the veins, margins shallowly toothed to scalloped, bases rounded to cordate, tips blunt with a mucro. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Male flowers green, with 4 'petals', each 0.7-0.9 mm long, in an elongated cluster 20-50 mm long. Female flowers with 3 'petals', each 0.5-0.8 mm long, in clusters of 1-3, at the bases of leaf-like bracts. Occasionally male and female flowers in the same cluster with the males above a single female flower.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acalypha~nemorum  (accessed 2 January, 2021)