Malvaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Androcalva fraseri

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Androcalva fraseri is a spindly shrub or a small tree growing around 2 - 9 metres tall and 2.5 - 4 metres wide. The plant can form suckers freely from rhizomes, spreading to form a colony[ 343 Title Growing Native Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/ Publisher Australian National Botanic Gardens Year 0 ISBN Description A series of articles giving details of cultivation and matters of general interest (including a few plant uses) on over 250 Australian plants. , 1890 Title A new Australian genus, Androcalva, separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae) Publication Australian Systematic Botany, 24 , 284-349 Author Wilkins C.F. & Whitlock B.A. Website http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB10032 Publisher Year 2011 ISBN Description ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a a fibre. The plant is sometimes grown as an ornamental, where it can be used to form a screening hedge. Androcalva fraseri is widespread and not regarded as threatened.The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2011)[ 1890 Title A new Australian genus, Androcalva, separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae) Publication Australian Systematic Botany, 24 , 284-349 Author Wilkins C.F. & Whitlock B.A. Website http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB10032 Publisher Year 2011 ISBN Description ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeSoutheast Australia - eastern New South Wales, southeast Queensland and ?Victoria

HabitatOn the coast and adjacent ranges, growing on rocky hillsides, along creek banks in riparian scrub, in low open heathland, open eucalypt forest or littoral rainforest, in skeletal soil, sandy loam over trachyte or rhyolite, or deep soil on sandstone[ 365 Title Flora of New South Wales Publication Author Website http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line resource giving a brief botanical description of all the native plants of New South Wales, their habitat and range, together with diagrams and photographs of the plants. ].