Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Ostrearia australiana Baill.
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Baillon, H.E. (1873) Adansonia 10: 131. Type: Queensland, Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy, holo: P. Fide L. S. Smith, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 69: 43 (1958).
Hard Pink Alder; Alder, Hard Pink
Usually encountered as a small tree to 30 cm dbh but recorded to 40 cm dbh. Lenticels often arranged in longitudinal lines.
Fruits +/- glabrous with only the very base enclosed in the remains of the hypanthium. Each fruit is a one or 2-lobed capsule with the capsules aggregated in an irregular fashion on a central axis 2-5 cm long. Seeds about 10-12 x 6 mm. Embryo about 9 mm long, cotyledons +/- orbicular, about 7-8 mm diam. The remains of the fruit are often present on the ground beneath mature trees.
A rare species.
Wood specific gravity 0.75. Cause et al. (1989).
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