Pollia crispata

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Plant  information

Common name:         Pollia

Conservation status: Least concern

Etymology:   

•  The genus is possibly from the Greek 'polis' - one of which there is a lot

• The specific epithet crispata is derived from Latin, meaning "wavy"

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Habit:        

• A perennial herb

Habitat:   

• Rainforest or rainforest margins

Distribution:                  

• Eastern Australia

• Found from near Nowra in NSW to tropical Queensland

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • It is one of the many plants first described by Robert Brown with the type known as "(J.) v.v." 

  • Published in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in 1810

  • The plant was later moved by the systematic botanist George Bentham into the genus Pollia

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollia_crispata (Jan 2024)