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Wrinkled Kerrawang

Commersonia hermanniifolia

Wrinkled Kerrawang
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Commersonia hermanniifolia, commonly known as wrinkled kerrawang, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a prostrate or trailing shrub with oblong to lance-shaped leaves that are paler on the lower surface, and flowers with five white sepals fading to pink and five pinkish petals.

Where it grows

Wrinkled kerrawang is a rare species mostly growing in coastal heath on sandstone cliffs or in gullies between Broken Bay and Jervis Bay and along the Shoalhaven River.

Other Commersonia plants

Commersonia amystia · Commersonia apella · Brown kurrajong · Commersonia borealis · Commersonia breviseta · Commersonia corniculata · Commersonia corylifolia · Brittle Leaved Rulingia · Kerrawang · Commersonia densiflora · Commersonia erythrogyna · Commersonia gilva

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Commersonia hermanniifolia 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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