Family: Baueraceae
Plant: A sprawling, tangled shrub up to 2m high.
Flowers: Bright pink, cup-shaped, on a slender hairy stalk, slightly nodding 1-2cm across with 6-8 petals and numerous yellow stamens.
Flowering: July-December.
Fruit: A small rust-coloured capsule.
Leaves: Leaves stalkless and divided into 3 narrow lanceolate leaflets 5-15mm long and 2-3mm wide in opposite pairs, appearing in whorls of 6. The leaves have 4-10 teeth on each margin.
Habitat: A common plant in wet sclerophyll forest and heathland in wet, shaded areas often bordering creeks.
Features: Bright pink flowers and apparently 6-whorled leaves.
Name:
Bauera After the Austrian botanical artists, the brothers Franz and Ferdinand Bauer.
rubioides From Latin = ruby-like (referring to its flowers).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Rust |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite, Whorled, |
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Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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