Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Commersonia hermanniifolia
Common name
Wrinkled kerrawang
Family
Malvaceae
Where found
Wet heath, cliffs, wet rock ledges, and gullies. Coast and ranges north from Ulladulla. Rarely farther south.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate or trailing, stems to 1m long. Stems stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating along the stems, mostly 0.5-2 cm long, 4-15 mm wide, upper surface strongly wrinkled, hairless or with stellate hairs towards the margins, lower surface densely tomentose, with white or white with brown-centred stellate hairs above dense smaller white stellate hairs, margins irregularly scalloped and curved down; tips blunt. Juvenile leaves sometimes larger and lobed, to 4 cm long. Flowers with 5 petals, white to pink, each about 2 mm long, in few flowered clusters. Sometimes flowers as a seedling. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Family was Sterculiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Commersonia~hermanniifolia (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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