Denhamia oleaster (Lindl.) F.Muell.

Celastraceae

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859) Transactions and Proceedings of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 3: 29.

A thin orange layer usually conspicuous beneath the dead bark. Outer and inner blazes often distinct.

Leaf blades about 4-8 x 1-3.5 cm. Larger twigs with a thin orange layer under the dead bark.

Sepals about 1 x 1.5 mm. Petals about 3-3.5 x 3 mm. Staminal filaments about 1.3 mm long or longer. Ovary about 1 x 1 mm. Style about 0.4-1 mm long. Ovary with about 8-10 ovules per locule (rarely reduced to six).

Capsules with woody valves. Capsules about 1.5-2.8 cm long.

 Cotyledons elliptic, about 20-25 x 11-15 mm. At the tenth leaf stage and earlier: leaves quite stiff, margins dentate-aristate, holly-like (Ilex aquifolium); stipules very small. Seed germination time 22 to 54 days.

Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as southern inland Queensland. Altitudinal range from sea level to 900 m. Grows in open forest and brigalow scrub but appears to attain its best development in monsoon forest at least in the northern part of its range.

Leucocarpum oleaster (Lindl.) F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6: 203(1868). Melicytus oleaster Lindl., Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia : 383(1848), Type: Qld, St Georges Bridge, Balonne River, T. L. Mitchell s.n.; syn: MEL. Denhamia heterophylla F.Muell., Transactions and Proceedings of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 3: 29(1859), Type: On scrubby ridges from the Gilbert River to the Burdekin River, F. Mueller; syn: MEL.