Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sturt National Park, NSW

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sturt National Park, NSW

Flowering plant. Photo: Greg Steenbeeke, Bellata, NSW

Common Name

Low Hibiscus

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub to 50cm tall, sometimes prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-4cm long, flat, rough, hairy. Lower leaves almost round, with toothed edges, upper leaves with three toothed lobes or leaflets. Flowers pink, with 5 petals, solitary, on stems originating at the bases of the leaves. Endangered Vic. Threatened list Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 481

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibiscus~brachysiphonius