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Androcalva crispa (Turcz.) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock
Crisped Leaf Commersonia

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 24:298 (2011)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 8-25 mm long, 3-11 mm wide, not lobed, tripartitely lobed or irregularly lobed, simply (once-)lobed; margins crenate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves), 3-7 mm long. Perianth clearly of two whorls (calyx and corolla), the corolla obvious and prominent. Pedicel present, 4-6 mm long; indumentum present, with stellate hairs present, with scales absent. Epicalyx (extra segments or 'bracteoles' immediately below the calyx) absent. Calyx cream or white, 5-6.4 mm long, the lobes fused less than half their length, Sessile glands absent, stellate hairs present, scales absent, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla white, 2.8-3.8 mm long, glabrous, scales absent. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Stamens five, free and inserted at the base of the ovary; filaments present, 0.4-1 mm long; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long, indumentum absent (anthers glabrous). Staminodes present, appendages absent. Ovary hairs and scales absent (ovary quite glabrous), gland-tipped hairs absent; styles several, free and separate, arising from the summit of the ovary, 1-1.4 mm long, with four or five style branches or lobes, mostly glabrous, wing absent. Fruits dehiscent (capsules and follicles), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, Sessile glands absent, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent; apex rounded; prickles absent (except perhaps a terminal awn); terminal awns or spines absent; calyx persistent to mature fruit, not accrescent; carpels 4; seeds per loculus 2-4. Flowering time March, July, August, September, October or November. Distribution Botanical Province South-West, IBRA Bioregion Mallee and Esperance.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.