Common name: Native Hollyhock, Australian Hollyhock
Malva preissiana Miq. APNI* Synonyms: Malva australiana M.F.Ray APNI*
Lavatera plebeia var. tomentosa Hook. APNI*
Description: Erect perennial to 4 m high: densely stellate-hairy.
Leaves with lamina broadly ovate, to 20 cm long, 5–7-lobed, lobes mostly obtuse, margins crenate or toothed, both surfaces stellate hairy and sometimes hoary below stellate hairs; petiole 10–15 mm long.
Flowers clustered on peduncles to 25 cm long. Calyx c. twice as long as epicalyx, enlarging after flowering and concealing ripening fruit, finally spreading. Petals lilac, pink or white.
Schizocarp 6–7 mm diam.; mericarps 8–16, indehiscent, smooth or wrinkled towards the crenate to toothed margins.
Flowering: Flowers July – February
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: *CC, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Tas.
Previously known as Lavatera phlebia Sims, Lavatera phlebia var. tomentosa Hook.f. or, more recently, Malva australiana.
Text by A.S. Mitchell & E.H. Norris (1990); modified B.J. Conn (2007)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW Vol 1 (1990).
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