Androcalva rossii, commonly known as native hemp,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.
It is spindly shrub or small tree that forms suckers, its branchlets covered with star-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped leaves with irregular teeth on the edges, and groups of 18 to 60 white or cream-coloured flowers.
[2][3][4][5] This species was first formally described in 2005 by Gordon Guymer who gave it the name Commersonia rossii in the journal Austrobaileya, from specimens collected in 1985 by David Albrecht near Lochiel, west of Pambula.
[6] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to Androcalva as A. rossii in Australian Systematic Botany.
[7] The specific epithet (rossii) honours "Dr Jim Ross, Chiel Botanist, National Herbarium of Victoria".