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Androcalva inglewoodensis

Androcalva inglewoodensis
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Androcalva inglewoodensis is a rare, prostrate shrub from south-eastern Queensland, known from only about 50 plants. It is best treated as a conservation-minded native to grow in conditions similar to its natural shrubland and open forest habitat.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly native soil.
Temperature
Subtropical conditions; frost-tender, protect below about 2 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Queensland
Climate
subtropical

About

Androcalva inglewoodensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a spreading, prostrate shrub that has hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with irregularly serrated edges, and small groups of white to cream-coloured flowers.

Where it grows

Androcalva inglewoodensis is only known from about 50 plants near the type specimen location in Bringalily State Forest where it grows in shrubland, woodland and open forest in association with Calytrix, Kunzea, Melaleuca, and Callitris.

Other Androcalva plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androcalva inglewoodensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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