Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition

Aceratium doggrellii C.T.White


Tree
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Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO
Leaves and flowers. © B. Gray
Fruit, side view and cross section. © W. T. Cooper
Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
Family

White, C.T. (1932) Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Kew : 42. Type: North Queensland: State Forest Reserve 185, Danbulla (Atherton Tableland), flowering specimens, October 1929, R.H.Doggrell, A. 22.

Common name

Buff Carabeen; Quandong; Carabeen, Buff; Buff Aceratium

Stem

Lenticels may be large and conspicuous (more than 3 mm diam.). Prop roots may be present at the butt.

Leaves

Teeth small, if present. Stipules small. Leaf blades about 4.5-8 x 1.5-2.5 cm. Petioles about 0.6 cm or more long, hairy, grooved or channelled on the upper surface. Terminal buds and young shoots clothed in pale brown prostrate hairs.

Flowers

Sepals about 8-10 x 2 mm. Petals about 12-14.5 x 3 mm. Staminal filaments glabrous throughout except for a few sparsely scattered hairs towards the apex.

Fruit

Fruits oblong, about 29-35 x 17-20 mm.

Seedlings

Cotyledons hairy on the upper surface mainly towards the base, venation parallel, scarcely visible. Stem above the cotyledons hairier than the hypocotyl. At the tenth leaf stage: upper surface of the leaf blade hairy, stem hairs erect, pale brown. Seed germination time 65 to 916 days.

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to NEQ, restricted to the Atherton Tableland and mountains in the immediate vicinity. Altitudinal range from 700-1200 m. Grows in well developed upland and mountain rain forest.

RFK Code
227
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