Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Irvingbaileya australis (C.T.White) R.A.Howard
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Flower opening up. © Barry Jago
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Flowers [not vouchered]. © T. Hawkes
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Flowers [not vouchered]. © T. Hawkes
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Fruit, immature. © Barry Jago
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Fruit and appendage, four views. © W. T. Cooper
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
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Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
Family
Howard, R.A. (1943) Brittonia 5: 50. Type: ?.
Common name
Beech, Buff; Buff Beach; Irvingbaileya; Wax Berry
Stem
Oak grain in the wood and a similar pattern in the inner blaze. White granular stripes in the outer blaze.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Natural History & Notes
Fallen fruit eaten by Cassowaries. Satin Bowerbirds sometimes use the fruit (white side up) as bower decorations. Cooper & Cooper (1994).
Synonyms
Medusanthera australis (C.T.White) R.A.Howard, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 21: 469(1940). Tylecarpus australis C.T.White, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock. Botany Bulletin 20: 12(1918), Type: Johnstone River, Dr. T.L. Bancroft, Rev. N. Michael, H.G. Ladbrook.
RFK Code
47
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