Androcalva leiperi | |
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Isotype in the National Herbarium of New South Wales | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Androcalva |
Species: | A. leiperi |
Binomial name | |
Androcalva leiperi | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Commersonia leiperiGuymer |
Androcalva leiperi, also known as Leiper's commersonia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of south-east Queensland. It is an erect or prostrate shrub that has brown bark, lance-shaped leaves with 4 to 7 pairs of rounded serrations on the edges, and groups of 3 to 12 white flowers.
Androcalva leiperi is an erect or prostrate shrub that typically grows to 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) high and 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) wide, and that forms suckers. Its bark is brown, its branchlets covered with golden, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped, 15–115 mm (0.59–4.53 in) long and 4–16 mm (0.16–0.63 in) wide on a petiole 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long with narrowly triangular stipules 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long at the base. The edges of the leaves have 4 to 7 pairs of rounded serrations on the edges and both surfaces of the leaves are covered with golden, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of 3 to 12 on a peduncle 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long, with bracts 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long at the base. The flowers are pink in the bud stage, then white and 4.5–5.5 mm (0.18–0.22 in) in diameter with 5 petal-like sepals, the lobes 1.5–1.6 mm (0.059–0.063 in) long. The petals are 1.7–1.9 mm (0.067–0.075 in) long, the middle lobe egg-shaped and the side lobes rounded. Flowering has been recorded in February and April. [3] [4]
This species was first formally described in 2006 by Gordon Guymer who gave it the name Commersonia leiperi in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected near Childers in 1996. [5] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to Androcalva as A. leiperi in Australian Systematic Botany . [6] The specific epithet (leiperi) honours Glenn Leiper, who discovered the species and has cultivated it in Beenleigh. [4]
Androcalva leiperi grows in woodland and open forest in a restricted area just south of Bundaberg and south-west of Maryborough in Queensland. [3] [4]
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Commersonia amystia is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dwarf shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves that are densely covered with star-like hairs on the lower surface, and has flowers with five white sepals that turn pink as they age, and five smaller white petals.
Commersonia macrostipulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or tree with egg-shaped leaves that are slightly serrated on the edges, flowers with five cream-coloured to white sepals and bristly fruit.
Commersonia obliqua is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Vanuatu. It is a shrub or tree with lance-shaped leaves and white flowers.
Androcalva argentea is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tall shrub that forms suckers from rhizomes and has silvery branchlets and leaves, the leaves egg-shaped with wavy edges and serrated, and dense clusters of 10 to 30 white to cream-coloured flowers.
Androcalva beeronensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub that forms suckers from rhizomes and has branchlets and leaves covered with soft, golden hairs, the leaves egg-shaped to lance-shaped with toothed edges, and clusters of 9 to 24 cream-coloured to white flowers.
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.
Androcalva incilis 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 with dark green, narrowly wedge-shaped to narrowly oblong leaves, and crowded heads of 8 to 12 deep pink flowers.
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.
Androcalva johnsonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to central Queensland. It is a low, spreading shrub that has hairy young branches, narrowly egg-shaped or oblong leaves with rounded teeth, and small groups of white to pale pink flowers.
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.
Androcalva melanopetala is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern inland Western Australia. It is a sometimes prostrate shrub that has densely hairy new growth, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with rounded teeth on the edges, and clusters of white or cream-coloured and pink to red flowers.
Androcalva multiloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. It is a dwarf shrub with densely hairy, irregularly serrated, egg-shaped leaves, and up to 5 white and red flowers arranged opposite leaf axils or on the ends of branches.
Androcalva pearnii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the Blackdown Tableland National Park in eastern Queensland. It is shrub that forms suckers and has hairy new growth, wavy, oblong to elliptic leaves with rounded lobes on the edges, and groups of 3 to 8 white and cream-coloured to pale green flowers.
Androcalva pedleyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is low, spreading or prostrate shrub that forms suckers and has softly-hairy new growth, linear to lance-shaped leaves with lobes on the edges, and groups of 7 to 10 white, later pink flowers.
Androcalva perkinsiana, commonly known as headland commersonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of central eastern Queensland. It is a small, erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, oblong or lance-shaped leaves with 5 to 11 pairs of small serrations on the edges, and groups of 3 to 4 pale purple flowers.
Androcalva reticulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is a low shrub that forms suckers, its new growth covered with star-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped leaves with irregular teeth on the edges, and groups of two to six red flowers.
Androcalva rossii, commonly known as native hemp, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is spindly shrub or small tree that forms suckers, its branchlets covered with star-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped leaves with irregular teeth on the edges, and groups of 18 to 60 white or cream-coloured flowers.
Androcalva stowardii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, the edges smoothly serrated, and clusters of three to nine or more white to cream-coloured flowers.
Androcalva viscidula is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub that forms suckers, its new stems densely hairy, and has egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with irregular teeth on the edges, and groups of 22 to 28 white flowers.