Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Glochidion sumatranum Miq.
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Miquel, F.A.W. (1861) Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. : 450. Type: Sumatra ?.
Cheesetree; Pin Flower Tree; Sumatran Buttonwood; Umbrella Cheesetree; Buttonwood
Dead bark layered.
Male flowers: Inflorescence pedunculate, usually supra-axillary. Flowers about 3 mm diam. without a disk. Female flowers: Flowers about 2 mm diam., pedicellate. Styles +/- columnar, slightly exserted at anthesis.
Capsules obscurely 10-lobed, flat or concave at the apex, about 7-9 mm diam., resembling a miniature Queensland Blue pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo).
Occurs in WA, NT, CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as north-eastern New South Wales. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 800 m. Favoured by disturbance, grows in a variety of habitats from well developed rain forest to fringing forest along creeks through eucalypt forest. Also occurs in Malesia and the Solomon Islands.
Produces a useful general purpose timber.
Wood specific gravity 0.70. Cause et al. (1989).
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