Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition

Melicope affinis T.G.Hartley


Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall)
Tree
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Flowers. © G. Sankowsky
Flowers. © G. Sankowsky
Inflorescences. © G. Sankowsky
Leaves and inflorescences. © G. Sankowsky
Family

Hartley, T.G. (2001) Allertonia 8(1): 195. Type: Queensland: Cook: State Forest Reserve 143, Windmill Logging Area, 880m, 1 Mar. 1979, B.Gray 1299.

Stem

Flowers and fruits as a shrub or tree to 20 m.

Leaves

Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflet blades usually elliptic, about 6-10 x 2.5-4 cm. Stalk of the middle leaflet slightly longer than those of the lateral leaflets. Lateral veins forming loops inside the blade margin. Oil dots very numerous and leaflets aromatic when crushed.

Flowers

Sepals about 0.8 mm long, connate at base, rounded. Petals about 2 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 4, staminal filaments glabrous. Disk glabrous. Ovary with hairs.

Fruit

Individual fruiting carpels about 3.5-4 mm long, not beaked. Seed about 3 mm long

Seedlings

Features not available.

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to NEQ, occurs in Windsor Tableland, Mt Spurgeon, Mt Lewis and nearby mountain areas. Altitudinal range from 560-900 m. Grows as an understory tree in rather dry rain forest.

RFK Code

1278

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