Common Name

Clustered Lawrencia, Small Golden-spike

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 1m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-5cm long, to 40mm wide, flat, hairy, toothed,tips blunt on lower leaves, pointed or 3-lobed on upper leaves.  Flowers with 5 inconspicuous green, yellowish, or white petals, scarsely longer than the sepals, in few flowered clusters (usually 3 flowers)at the bases of the leaves, often appearing to be in dense leafy spike -like clusters towards the ends of the stems.

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 pages 491-492

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

FloraBase photos:  http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/4955

Flowering plant. Photographer Richard Hartland, Sunset Country, Vic