Acalypha pubiflora subsp. australica Radcl.-Sm.

Euphorbiaceae

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1990) Kew Bulletin 45(4): 678. Type: "W.A.: 1km SE of Yammera Gap, SW side of Napier Range [Kimberley Region], 17°22'S, 124°49'E,26 April 1988. Cranfield 6548 (holotype PERTH, isotype K)."

Shrub, 1-6 m tall. Branches reddish with white lenticels. Stems minutely hairy with simple recurved hairs, and also longer hairs to 3 mm long.

Leaves spirally arranged, ovate to narrowly ovate; 3-11.5 x 1.4-5 cm, pale to bright green with numerous yellow oil glands on the undersurface; margin crenate; apex acuminate, base obtuse.

Inflorescences axillary. Female flowers 1-2 per spike; male flowers in many-flowered spikes. Female bracts broadly ovate and folded to enclose two flowers. Female flowers: floral segments 3, ovary with sparse hairs and glands, style laciniate (divided into irregular segments). Male flowers in long spikes, very small, whitish.

Female bracts 1.4 x 0.8 cm in fruit. Fruit c. 3 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, gland-dotted, held in the enlarged bracts.

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Endemic to Australia, occurs in WA, NT and far western NEQ. Occurs in and on the edge of vine thickets, often on limestone.

Description from 'Flora of the Kimberley Region', and the 'Flora of Zimbabwe' online.

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