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Androcalva leichhardtii

Androcalva leichhardtii
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Androcalva leichhardtii is a small, open native shrub from central Queensland, typically around 60 cm high and wide, with yellow flowers and wrinkled leaves. It is a little-known wild species, so most care advice is general guidance for dry-climate Australian natives.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates drought.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or stony soil; avoid heavy wet clay.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates heat and frost to about -5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Androcalva leichhardtii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to central Queensland. It is a small shrub with hairy new growth, wrinkled, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with irregular serrations on the edges, and small groups of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Androcalva leichhardtii grows as an undershrub under eucalypts on stony hills and ridges from near Taroom to near Chinchilla in central Queensland.

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 inglewoodensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androcalva leichhardtii 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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