Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Androcalva fraseri
Common name
Brush kurrajong
Family
Malvaceae
Where found
Rainforest, wet forest, clearings, and roadsides. Coast and ranges north of the Bermagui district.
Notes
Small tree or shrub to 8 m high. Bark brown to greyish, smooth with horizontally elongated lenticels. Stems hairy with pale or brown stellate hairs about 0.5 mm long (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lenticels not obvious at first. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5-20 cm long, 20-120 mm wide, lower surface covered with white or or pale brown centred stellate hairs, margins irregularly toothed, sometimes with short lobes. Flowers cream to white, sometimes pinkish, 9-11 mm in diameter, with 5 petals and 5 staminodes that look like petals, as long as the petals. Flowers in branched clusters 3.5-5 cm long.
Family was Sterculiaceae.
Difficult to distinguish from Androcalva rossii in southern NSW. It has smaller leaves, and smaller stellate hars on the branchlets, leaves, and flower clusters.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Commersonia~fraseri (accessed 17 April 2021)
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