Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Seringia arborescens

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Common name

None 

Family

Malvaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north of Batemans Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 8 m high. Young stems rusty-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 4–15 cm long, 15–60 mm wide, hairless or almost so on the upper surface, stellate-tomentose (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and with the main vein raised and rusty-tomentose on the lower surface, margins toothed. Flowers greenish white, with 0 petals. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, 3–5 mm long, hairy. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters. Seeds densely hairy, with a short wide wing on the back.

Family was Sterculiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Seringia~arborescens (accessed 22 October, 2019)