Botanical name

Cliffortia ferruginea

Family

Rosaceae

Common Name

Glastee, Pypsteelbos
Cliffortia ferruginea
Cliffortia ferruginea
Cliffortia ferruginea
Cliffortia ferruginea
Cliffortia ferruginea

Description

A low or sprawling subshrub, sometimes climbing up surrounding vegetation, up to 1.2m high; densely divaricately branched; young stems are tinged red. Leaves are unifoliate, elliptic to oblong or obovate, leaf apex acute to acuminate, leaf margins markedly toothed with 1-33 recurved teeth; stipules 2.2-10.9 mm long. Flowers solitary or clustered together in axils. Male flowers: stamens 10-16; filaments 3.5-4.4 mm long, red; anthers brownish red or yellow. Female flowers: stigma 1.8-3.4 mm long, red to greenish-white, feathery, hidden at base of leaves. Achene whitish to pale brown, glabrous and 12-ribbed.

Latin: ferruginea = rusty coloured, referring to the stems and stipules, which are brown and papery.

Habitat

Damp seeps and seasonally waterlogged areas in full sun, usually below 300m

Flower Date

January to December