| Flannel leaf | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Araliaceae |
| Genus: | Astrotricha |
| Species: | A. floccosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Astrotricha floccosa | |
Astrotricha floccosa, known as the flannel leaf, is a plant found in eastern Australia. An erect shrub usually seen around 2 metres tall. Though it can grow to 4 metres tall.
The generic name comes from the Greek, meaning “star hairs”, referring to the covering of star like hairs. Floccosa is from the Latin, meaning woolly. The underside of the leaves and stems feature woolly white hairs.[1]
It grows on poor soils in dry sclerophyll eucalyptus areas near Sydney, and as far west as Springwood in the lower Blue Mountains. Leaves are fairly narrow, 7.5 to 27 cm long, 2 to 5 cm wide, leaf stalks usually 10 to 30 mm long. Stalks of the similar Astrotricha latifolia are longer.[2]
References
- ↑ Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7318-1211-0 page 128
- ↑ "Astrotricha floccosa". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online, retrieved December 9th, 2010.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.