Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Glochidion lobocarpum (Benth.) F.M.Bailey
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Habit, leaves and male flowers. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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Male flower. © CSIRO
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Female flower. © CSIRO
Family
Bailey, F.M. (1902) The Queensland Flora 5: 1424.
Common name
Pin Flower Tree
Stem
Usually grows into a small tree but often flowers and fruits as a shrub. Dead bark layered.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Capsules about 8-9 mm diam., deeply divided into bilobed cocci on a pedicel about 5 mm long.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Occurs in NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as south-eastern Queensland. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 150 m. Grows in rain forest, fringing forest, beach forest and gallery forest along creeks and rivers. Also occurs in New Guinea.
Synonyms
Phyllanthus lobocarpus Benth., Flora Australiensis 6: 97(1873), Type: Queensland. Rockhampton, OShanesy; Nerkool Creek, Bowman.
RFK Code
984
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