Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Streblus glaber subsp. australianus (C.T.White) C.C.Berg
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Berg, C.C. (2005) Blumea 50: 548.
Smooth Streblus
Seldom exceeding 30 cm dbh.
Male and female flowers sessile, inflorescence bracts ovate-lanceolate, sessile. Male flowers: Inflorescence about 20-40 mm long. Staminal filaments about 2 mm long. Female flowers: Inflorescence about 5-15 mm long. Ovary about 2 mm long. Style arms about 1.5-2 mm long.
Cotyledons obovate, somewhat truncate at the apex. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade ovate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate, glabrous; very small dark red glands can be seen with a lens on both the upper and lower surfaces of the leaf blade, and also on the midrib, petiole and stem; stipules elongate-triangular, clothed in very fine hairs. Seed germination time 29 to 38 days.
Endemic to NEQ, widely distributed throughout the area. Altitudinal range from 600-1200 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed upland and mountain rain forest.
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