Commersonia rugosa

Last updated

Commersonia rugosa
Commersonia rugosa.jpg
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Commersonia
Species:
C. rugosa
Binomial name
Commersonia rugosa
Synonyms [1]
  • Commerconia rugosaF.Muell. orth. var.
  • Restiaria rugosa(Steetz) Kuntze
  • Rulingia cistifolia A.Cunn. ex Steetz
  • Rulingia cristifoliaA.Cunn. ex Benth. orth. var.
  • Rulingia rugosaSteetz

Commersonia rugosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to New South Wales. It is an open, straggly shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with irregular teeth or lobes on the edges, and white flowers in clusters of 3 to 15.

Contents

Description

Commersonia rugosa is an open, straggly shrub that typically grows to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high and wide, its new growth covered with brownish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly egg-shaped, 2–34 mm (0.079–1.339 in) long and 1–10 mm (0.039–0.394 in) wide on a petiole 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long with stipules 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) long at the base. The edges of the leaves are irregularly toothed or lobed and rolled under, the upper surface wrinkled with prominent impressed veins, and the lower surface densely covered with velvety hairs. The flowers are arranged in crowded clusters of 3 to 15 on a peduncle 6–18 mm (0.24–0.71 in) long, each flower on a pedicel up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long with a narrow bract 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base. The flowers are about 10 mm (0.39 in) wide with five white, petal-like sepals that have fine, white star-shaped hairs on the back, and petals with a narrow, hairy ligule. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a hairy, bristly capsule 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) in diameter. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1846 by Joachim Steetz who gave it the name Rulingia rugosa in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae . [5] [6] In 1882, Ferdinand von Mueller transferred the species to Commersonia as C. rugosa in his Systematic Census of Australian Plants . [7]

The specific epithet (rugosa) means "wrinkled". [8]

Distribution and habitat

Commersonia rugosa mainly grows near creeks in forest or woodland, sometimes on hillsides or the summit of ranges and occurs south of the Royal National Park in New South Wales, to Orbost in Victoria, where it was first recorded in 2020 following bushfires. [2] [3] [4]

Related Research Articles

<i>Commersonia dasyphylla</i> Species of flowering plant

Commersonia dasyphylla, commonly known as kerrawang, is a species of flowering plant of the family Malvaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped with irregular edges and flowers in groups of up to 21, followed by hairy brown capsules.

<i>Lasiopetalum baueri</i> Species of plant

Lasiopetalum baueri, commonly known as slender velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, greyish shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white or pink flowers.

<i>Commersonia borealis</i> Species of flowering plant

Commersonia borealis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a low growing, spreading shrub with egg-shaped to oblong leaves, and white, yellow and cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Kunzea preissiana</i> Species of shrub

Kunzea preissiana is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branches and leaves, pink to mauve flowers in groups on the ends of shoots, and twenty to thirty stamens about the same length as the petals. It is a widespread, often locally common species across its range.

<i>Thomasia angustifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Thomasia angustifolia, commonly known as narrow-leaved thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has densely hairy young stems, narrowly oblong, wrinkled leaves and pinkish-purple, bell-shaped flowers.

<i>Commersonia craurophylla</i> Species of plant

Commersonia craurophylla, commonly known as brittle leaved rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with crinkled, narrowly oblong to linear leaves, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Hibbertia lineata</i> Species of flowering plant

Hibbertia lineata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with linear to narrow egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers, usually with ten stamens arranged on one side of, and leaning over the two densely hairy carpels.

<i>Leucopogon elatior</i> Species of plant

Leucopogon elatior is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect or straggly shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers.

Stenanthemum coronatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with sparsely hairy young stems, broadly egg-shaped leaves and densely shaggy-hairy heads of tube-shaped flowers.

Stenanthemum tridentatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to upright shrub with sparsely hairy young stems, egg-shaped to fan-shaped leaves, and creamy white or creamy-yellow flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to three.

Thomasia rulingioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with densely hairy new growth, narrowly oblong to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with wavy edges, and pink to purple flowers.

<i>Pimelea phylicoides</i> Species of shrub

Pimelea phylicoides, commonly known as heath rice-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy young stems, narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and heads of white flowers surrounded by 3 to 6 involucral bracts.

Commersonia corylifolia, commonly known as hazel-leaved rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spreading, erect shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Commersonia grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with hairy, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and white or cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Commersonia magniflora</i> Species of plant

Commersonia magniflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to Australia. It is an erect shrub with wrinkled, narrowly oblong to elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, and deep pink flowers.

Commersonia parviflora, commonly known as small flowered rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low, prostrate or dense shrub with wrinkled, egg-shaped leaves with rounded teeth on the edges, and clusters of small, white flowers.

<i>Commersonia prostrata</i> Species of flowering plant

Commersonia prostrata, commonly known as dwarf kerrawang, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with trailing branches, egg-shaped leaves, the lower surface densely covered with star-like hairs, white, petal-like sepals, and smaller, pinkish petals.

Commersonia rotundifolia, commonly known as round-leaved rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an upright, openly-branched shrub with elliptic to round leaves with wavy edges, and white flowers in clusters of 3 to 10.

<i>Commersonia salviifolia</i> Species of plant

Commersonia salviifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves and white flowers in clusters of 5 to 30.

<i>Commersonia erythrogyna</i> Species of flowering plant

Commersonia erythrogyna, commonly known as Trigwell's rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, straggly shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and creamy-white flowers.

References

  1. 1 2 "Commersonia rugosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 Blake, Trevor L. (2021). Lantern bushes of Australia ; Thomasias & allied genera : a field and horticultural guide. Victoria: Australian Plants Society, Keilor Plains Group. pp. 200–201. ISBN   9780646839301.
  3. 1 2 Conn, Barry J.; Mccune, Seanna F. "Commersonia rugosa". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 Messina, Andre. "Commersonia rugosa". Ropyal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  5. "Rulingia rugosa". APNI. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  6. Sonder, Otto W. (1845). Lehmann, Johann J.G. (ed.). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 2. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. pp. 352–353. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  7. "Commersonia rugosa". APNI. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  8. William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary (4th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 486.