Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Palmeria scandens
Common name
Anchor Vine, Pomegranate Vine
Family
Monimiaceae
Where found
Rainforest. Coast and ranges north of Batemans Bay.
Notes
Tall woody climber, sometimes scrambling and shrublike in the juvenile stages. Stems sparsely to somewhat densely hairy with simple and/or stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), ridged, rough, with many prominent lenticels. Leaves opposite each other, 4.5–19 cm long, 20–90 mm wide, upper surface sparsely hairy, lower surface hairless to densely hairy with mixed simple and stellate hairs, paler than the upper surface, bases rounded to very slightly cordate, tips gradually tapering to a point, margins entire to finely scalloped. Male and female flowers on different plants, whitish. Male flowers 3-8 mm in diameter with 4-5 lobes, female flowers about 2-3 mm in diameter, perianth spherical, lobes absent. Male flowers in clusters of 7-15 flowers; female flowers in clusters of 5-9 flowers. False fruit more or less fleshy, green, 15–20 mm in diameter, splitting at maturity and revealing 3–7 fleshy fruit (red turning black) seated on the inner pinkish to reddish face of the split skin. Flowering: winter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Palmeria~scandens (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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