Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Acronychia acronychioides (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley
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Flowers and buds. © Barry Jago

Flowers. © Barry Jago

Flowers and buds. © CSIRO

Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO

Fruit, several views and cross section. © W. T. Cooper

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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO

10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Family
Hartley, T.G. (1974) Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 55: 545.
Common name
White Aspen
Stem
Seldom growing beyond 30 cm dbh. White or cream stripes in the outer blaze.
Leaves
Flowers
Inflorescence about 3-9 cm long. Flowers about 9-11 mm long. Stamens eight, dimorphic, four long and four short, in one whorl, long and short stamens alternating.
Fruit
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP, NEQ and CEQ. Altitudinal range from sea level to 1100 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites.
Synonyms
Acronychia melicopoides F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5: 3(1865). Acronychia melicopoides F.Muell. var. melicopoides, Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7: 145(1869). Euodia acronychioides F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4: 117(1864), Type: In silvis ad Rockingham Bay. Dallachy. Jambolifera melicopoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 102(1891). Acronychia melicopoides var. lasiantha F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7: 145(1869), Type: Cl. Carolus Moore varietatem fortasse hujus speciei a fontibus fluminis Clarences River Novae Angliae misit,.
RFK Code
244
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