Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bauera rubioides
Common name
River Rose, Dog Rose, Wiry Bauera
Family
Cunoniaceae
Where found
Moist situations in forest and heath, and stream banks. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high, scrambling, often sprawling and tangled. Stems wiry. Young stems hairy. Leaves opposite each other, appearing simple and whorled, compound, with 3 leaflets each 0.3–1.5 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, with 4–10 teeth on each margin, tips pointed. Flowers pink, occasionally white, about 5–20 mm in diameter, with 5–8 petals. Flowers on stalks more than 5 mm long. Flowering: most of the year.
Family was Baueraceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bauera~rubioides (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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