Family: Uvulariaceae
Plant: An erect or sprawling herb with soft stems to 20cm high.
Flowers: Lilac-pink with dark purple anthers. The flowers are star-like with 3 petals and 3 sepals, about 1.5cm across and solitary on slender stalks from upper leaf axils.
Flowering: October-November.
Leaves: Soft, ovate to lanceolate stalkless leaves with wavy margins scattered along the stems. The leaves are 3-4cm long and 1-2cm wide with parallel veins.
Fruit: Wrinkled ovoid capsule 5-8mm diameter.
Habitat: In moist shady locations in dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: A scrambling herb. Leaves alternate with parallel veins. Lilac-pink flowers.
Name:
Schelhammera
After German professor G. C. Schelhammer
undulata From Latin undulata = wavy (referring to the margins of its leaves)
Type |
Herb |
|
Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
|
Colour(s) |
Pink, Mauve |
|
Petal/Sepal No. |
3, 6 |
|
Flowering Month |
10, 11 |
Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
|
Colour |
Cream, Green |
|
Other Features |
- |
Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
|
Type |
Simple |
|
Shape |
Oval |
|
Length |
Short |
|
Margins |
Entire, Wavy |
|
Attachment |
Unstalked |
|
Other Features |
Soft |
Bark |
- |
|
Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest |