Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Atalaya hemiglauca (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
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Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863) Enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. J. Murray during Mr. A. Howitt's expedition into Central Australia in the year 1862. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 16.
Whitewood
Tree to 6m; bark pale grey to cream, rough and scaly; buds and young stems white-hairy; stems becoming hairless.
Leaves simple on juveniles; pinnately compound without a terminal leaflet on mature plants; leaflets 2-6(10); lamina bluey-grey, variable in shape, linear, narrowly oblong-ovate or narrowly oblong elliptic; apex obtuse to rounded; base acute; pinnately veined with 20-30 main lateral veins each side of midvein; petioles and petiolules with prominent basal pulvinus. Stipules absent.
Inflorescence thyrsoid, terminal or in upper axilsFlowers white, scented, functionally unisexual, slightly zygomorphic; sepals 5, pubescent; petals 5, hairy especially towards the base; male flowers with 8 free stamens and a rudimentary gynoecium; female flowers with a superior 2-3-lobed ovary and 8 staminodes.
Features not available.
Thouinia hemiglauca F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(5): 98 (1859) Type: Mt Murchison, Qld, J.Dallachy & Goodwin.
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