Bauera rubioides

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:               . . .  

• Also,  dog rose or wiry bauera

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne on pedicels more than 5 mm long and have six to eight toothed sepals 3–4 mm long, six to eight usually pink sometimes white, petals 6–8 mm long, and usually fifty to sixty cream-coloured stamens

• Flowering mostly occurs in spring and summer

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

•  The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets narrowly elliptic, mostly 3–15 mm long, 1.5–5.0 mm wide 

• Usually have four to ten teeth on each edge

Stem & branches:  

•  Wiry branches

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A scrambling, tangled shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m and has wiry, extensively-branched stems

Habitat:   

• Grows in wet, often shaded areas 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to south-eastern Australia

• In south-eastern Queensland, the coast and ranges of NSW, in southern Victoria, south-eastern South Australia and it is common in Tasmania

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Bauera rubioides was first formally described in 1801 by Henry Cranke Andrews in The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants

  • Andrews noted "...the whole plant has, at first sight, much the appearance of a Rubus."

  • John Sims recorded in Curtis's Botanical Magazine that "...the trivial name is derived from the resemblance which it bears, especially in its young state, to a Rubia, not a Rubus, as Mr. Andrews, with his usual accuracy, would have it."

• Use in horticulture

  • Bauera rubioides is readily grown from cuttings 

  • Is hardy in moist, well-drained soil in full sun or light shade

Sources of information:

• (2023)