Bauera capitata

Bauera capitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Cunoniaceae and is endemic to coastal eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with trifoliate, usually lobed leaves and sessile, deep pink flowers with twelve to fifteen stamens.

Description

Bauera capitata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a few spreading branches. The leaves are trifoliate, long, wide and usually have lobed edges. The flowers are arranged in groups at the ends of the branches and are more or less sessile with four sepals long, four deep pink petals long, and twelve to fifteen pink stamens. Flowering occurs in September and October.

Taxonomy

Bauera capitata was first formally described in 1830 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, from an unpublished description by Nicolas Charles Seringe. The specific epithet means "having flowers in heads".

Distribution and habitat

This species of Bauera grows in near-coastal areas from south-eastern Queensland to Port Hacking in New South Wales.