Androcalva fragifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a straggling, prostrate shrub with glossy, broadly egg-shaped leaves, and creamy white flowers.
Androcalva fragifolia is a straggling, prostrate, ground-covering shrub that typically grows to Шаблон:Cvt high and Шаблон:Cvt wide, its new growth covered with white, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petioleШаблон:Cvt long with stipulesШаблон:Cvt long at the base. The leaves are glossy with lobed and toothed edges, impressed veins on the upper surface and white, star-shaped hairs below. The flowers are arranged singly or in small groups on a peduncleШаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicelШаблон:Cvt long, with egg-shaped bractsШаблон:Cvt long at the base. The flowers are Шаблон:Cvt wide with 5 pink to creamy-white petal-like sepals and 5 petals, the ligule creamy-white with a pinkish base and almost as long as the sepals. There are 3 staminodes between each pair of stamens, the central one egg-shaped and the other two linear. Flowering occurs in October, November and February.[1]
This species grows in forest and around rock outcrops in 4 populations between Wongan Hills and Bindoon in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1][3]
