Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Androcalva fraseri
Brush kurrajong
Malvaceae
Rainforest, wet forest, clearings, and roadsides. Coast and ranges north of the Bermagui district.
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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