Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:68 (1859).

Synonymy: Commersonia loxophylla (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 10:22 (1876); C. kempeana F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 11:113 (1881); R. kempeana (F. Muell.)F. Muell. ex J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 384 (1926).

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub with spreading or semiprostrate branches, usually under 50 cm high and much broader than high; younger branches densely covered in stellate hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate to broad-elliptic, subcuneate to cordate at the base, entire to serrate or crenate, sometimes undulate, with a slightly impressed midrib and other veins, with flat margins densely stellate-tomentose below but less so or subglabrous above, pale below, 15-50 mm long, 10-25 mm broad; petioles 2-10 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 2-5 mm long, early caducous or persisting after the leaves are shed.

Inflorescence fairly dense, on short peduncles, to c. 20-flowered; pedicels 2-3 mm long; bracts at the bases of the flowers brown, thin, linear-lanceolate, early caducous, 2.5-4 mm long; buds not strongly ridged; calyx yellow, 2-3 mm long, deeply divided, predominantly stellate-hairy outside and more sparsely simple-hairy inside; petals glabrous, 1.5-2 mm long; flat portion of petals longer than the basal part, ovate to obovate; dehisced anthers about as broad as long; staminodes oblong-lanceolate, about as long as or shorter than the petals, glabrous, erect; ovary hairy.

Fruit hairy, globose, c. 3 mm diam., with up to 5 longitudinal lobes.

	Rulingia loxophylla twig, bud, flower, petal, stamen and staminode.
Image source: fig 446b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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