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Androcalva crispa

Androcalva crispa
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Androcalva crispa, commonly known as crisped leaf commersonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub that forms suckers from rhizomes and has densely new growth, clusters of lobed, egg-shaped or oblong leaves with wavy, serrated edges, and groups of white and pinkish-purple flowers.

Where it grows

Crisped leaf commersonia grows in woodland, mallee, heath and sedgeland between Bremer Bay, the Fitzgerald River National Park and Ravensthorpe in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Androcalva plants

Androcalva adenothalia · Androcalva aphrix · Androcalva argentea · Androcalva beeronensis · Androcalva bivillosa · Androcalva cuneata · Androcalva fragifolia · Androcalva fraseri · Androcalva gaudichaudii · Androcalva incilis · Androcalva inglewoodensis · Androcalva johnsonii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androcalva crispa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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