Correa aemula

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Plant  information

Common name:                Hairy Correa  

Conservation status:  unknown

Etymology:   

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Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged singly, sometimes in pairs, in leaf axils or on the ends of short shoots

• Each on a pendent pedicel 5–30 mm long

• The calyx is cup-shaped with four lance-shaped lobes 4–8 mm long

• The petals are fused for most of their length, forming a cylindrical corolla 15–30 mm long and green or greyish gren, fading to mauve-purple

• The eight stamens extend slightly beyond the end of the petal tube

• Flowering occurs in spring and summer

Fruit:                         

• x

Leaves:         

• The leaves are papery, broadly heart-shaped

• 10–60 mm long and 5–35 mm wide

• On a petiole 4–6 mm long and covered with star-shaped hairs

Stem & branches: 

• x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• An erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 2.5 m and has woolly-hairy branches

Habitat:   

• Occurs on sandy or rocky soils in open forests and heathy woodlands 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to south-eastern Australia

• Mount Lofty Ranges and Kangaroo Island in South Australia

• The Grampians in Victoria

Species:                     

• Hybrids with Correa decumbens and Correa reflexa have been recorded

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • The hairy correa was first formally described in 1838 by botanist John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's book, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia

  • Lindley gave the plant the name Didimeria aemula

  • In 1858, Ferdinand von Mueller, changed the name to Correa aemula in his book Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae