Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition

Acronychia vestita F.Muell.


Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall)
Tree
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Flowers and buds. © CSIRO
Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO
Fruit, two views and cross section. © W. T. Cooper
Leaves and fruit. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
Family

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4: 155. Type: Ad rivum Dalrymple Creek sinui Rockingham Bay affluentem. Dallachy.

Common name

Fuzzy Lemon Aspen; Hairy Aspen; White Apsen

Stem

Narrow, cream or pale brown, brittle stripes often apparent in the inner blaze.

Leaves

Younger leaf bearing twigs clothed in numerous pale brown, erect hairs. Leaf bearing twigs 2-4 mm diam. Leaf blades about 10-16 x 5-10 cm. Lateral veins forming loops well inside the blade margin. Oil dots quite numerous.

Flowers

Inflorescence about 5-7 cm long. Flowers about 6.5-8 mm long. Stamens eight, dimorphic, four long and four short, in one whorl, long and short stamens alternating.

Fruit

Fruits rugose, +/- globular, about 15-18 mm diam. Seeds about 5-5.5 mm long.

Seedlings

Cotyledon margin finely crenate. First pair of leaflets +/- sessile, margins toothed. At the tenth leaf stage: a few small teeth towards the apex of the leaf blade; leaf blade quite hairy on the underside with a few hairs on the upper surface; terminal bud hairy. Seed germination time 189 to 628 days.

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 750 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed lowland and upland rain forest. This species is favoured by disturbance.

Synonyms
Jambolifera vestita (F.Muell.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 102(1891).
RFK Code
56
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