Rulingia hermanniifolia

Wrinkled Kerrawang

Family:            Sterculiaceae

Plant:              A small prostrate shrub with stems up to 30cm long.

Flowers:         Clusters of a few small white to pink flowers about 5mm across with 5 spreading rounded petals and red dark stamens.

Flowering:      July-September.

Fruit:               Hairy reddish-brown capsule 4-6mm diameter

Leaves:          Alternate, dark green, lanceolate to oblong up to 2cm long and 4-15mm wide, glossy and wrinkled, hairy and paler on the underside. The margins of the leaves are wavy, recurved and sometimes toothed.

Habitat:           Coastal heathland mostly on sandstone cliffs.

Features:       Prostrate habit. Dark green wrinkled leaves. Small pinkish-white flowers.

Name:

Rulingia          After the German botanist Dr. Johann Rueling.

hermanniifolia 

                        From the plant having leaves similar to those of the Hermannia.

Search Criteria

 

Type

Shrub, Herb

Flowers

Form

Regular, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White, Pink

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

7, 8, 9

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

Red, Brown

 

Other Features

-

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Tiny, Short

 

Margins  

Toothed/Serrated, Wavy

 

Attachment

Stalked

 

Other Features

Discolorous

Bark

-

Habitat

Heathland