Bauera microphylla


Bauera microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Cunoniaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a small shrub with trifoliate, sometimes toothed leaves, and usually white, pedicellate flowers.

Description

Bauera microphylla is a trailing shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a many spreading branches. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets mostly long, wide and sometimes have two to six teeth on each edge. The flowers are borne on pedicels more than long and have five to seven toothed sepals long, five to seven usually white petals long, and ten to thirty cream-coloured stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and summer.

Taxonomy

Bauera microphylla was first formally described in 1830 by David Don in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, from specimens collected by George Caley. The specific epithet means "small leaves".

Distribution and habitat

This species of Bauera mostly grows in near-coastal heath north from Wollongong in New South Wales.