Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Mesua larnachiana (F.Muell.) Kosterm.
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Flowers [not vouchered]. © G. Sankowsky
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Flower buds [not vouchered]. © G. Sankowsky
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Leaves amd fruit. © CSIRO
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Leaves [not vouchered]. © G. Sankowsky
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Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
Family
Kostermans, A.G.J.H. (1965) Reinwardtia 7 : 427.
Stem
A small tree seldom exceeding 30 cm dbh but also flowers and fruits when much smaller.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Fruits obovoid, enclosed in the persistent sepals, fruit + sepals about 20 x 26 mm. Cotyledons fused together.
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Kayea larnachiana F.Muell., The Victorian Naturalist 3: 126(1887), Type: On the Mossman-River; W. Sayer.
RFK Code
560
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