Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Austrobuxus megacarpus P.I.Forst.
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Female flowers. © CSIRO
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Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO
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Leaves and fruit. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
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Cotyledon stage, Epigeal germination. © CSIRO
Family
Forster, P.I. (1997) Austrobaileya 4: 622. Type: Qld, Cook District, State Forest Reserve 310, Bora Logging Area, 23 June 1982, B. Gray 2632; holo: QRS; iso: BRI.
Common name
Shiny Southern Box
Stem
Often a gnarled poorly formed tree.
Leaves
Flowers
Seedlings
Cotyledons elliptic. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves narrowly elliptic, apex acuminate. Seed germination time 55 to 174 days.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Austrobuxus nitidus Miq., Florae Indiae Batavae, Suppl. 1, Prodromus Florae Sumatranae : 444(1861), Type: Sumatra occid. in littore prope Siboga (T.).
RFK Code
477
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