Family: Malvaceae
Rulingia magniflora
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:223 (1874).
Synonymy: Commersonia magniflora (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 11:114 (1881).
Common name: None
Description:
Shrubs 1-2 m high; younger branches velvety-stellate-tomentose; leaves oblong-lanceolate, crenate or serrate, with impressed midrib and secondary and often tertiary veins, with flat margins, velvety-stellate-tomentose especially on the paler undersurface, 30-60 mm long, 5-20 mm broad; petioles 3-4 mm long; stipules sublinear, 2-5 mm long, early caducous.
Inflorescence lax, on peduncles often less than 2 cm long, often c. 10-flowered; pedicels 2-10 mm long; bracts at the bases of the flowers brown, thin, serrate, ovate, usually caducous, 4-6 mm long; buds 5-ridged; calyx pink, 9-12mm long, shallowly divided, deeply cup-shaped, stellate-hairy outside, simple hairy inside; petals sparsely hairy, much shorter than the calyx, with a broad concave base which is truncate and notched at its apex; flat portion of the petals 1.5-2 mm long, not longer than the basal part, oblong; dehisced anthers a little longer than broad; staminodes sparsely hairy, narrow lanceolate, slightly shorter than the petals.
Fruit enclosed in the calyx, hairy, globose, 5-6 mm diam., shallowly lobed.
| Rulingia magniflora twig, bud, flower, petal, stamen and staminode, with fruit below with the calyx partly removed.
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Image source: fig 446c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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