Australina pusilla Gaudich.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Australina

Characteristics

Perennial herb with prostrate and ascending or erect stems to 20 (–50) cm long, lightly strigose to glabrescent. Leaves with lamina almost circular to elliptic or ovate (to obovate), dentate to crenate (1–6 teeth on each side), obtuse to acute apex, cuneate at base, (5–) 7–60 mm long, 7–20 mm wide, glabrous or with varying indumentum; lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, the basal pair prominent; petiole 3–30 (–50) mm long; stipules minute. Male inflorescence: peduncle to 1.3 cm long, thin; flowers 2–4 (rarely 1 or 5), c. 2 mm long, densely strigose. Female inflorescence 1–20-flowered; flowers: perianth tubular, attenuate, 2-dentate, stigma filiform, unilaterally stigmatic, strigose. Achene asymmetrically ellipsoidal, 1–2 mm long, shortly stipitate, smooth, brown.
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Stems slender, ± pubescent, branching, creeping and rooting, forming matted patches up to 6 dm. across. Lvs 10-15 × 10-15 mm., on almost filiform petioles up to 1·5 cm. long, often with accessory small lvs; lamina suborbicular, bluntly crenate, with cuneate to truncate base, asperous on both surfaces. Stipules minute, narrow-subulate. ♂ us. 2 at apex of common peduncle; per. subcampanulate, obscurely 2-lobed, pilose. ♀ solitary or 2-3 together; bracteoles minute or absent; per. subcompressed, hispidulous, tube inflated, mouth minute; stigma filiform, pubescent. Achene erect, brown, invested by persistent per.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
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Environment

Grows in shaded areas along watercourses, especially banks of running streams and on wet rocks; in fern gullies, rainforest, moist undergrowth.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Images

Australina pusilla unspecified picture
Australina pusilla unspecified picture

Distribution

Australina pusilla world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:850478-1
WFO ID wfo-0000557281
COL ID 67XM7
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Australina novae-zelandiae Australina pusilla Urtica pusilla Australina hispidula Australina septemdentata Australina tasmanica Australina pusilla var. major

Lower taxons

Australina pusilla subsp. muelleri