Alyxia grandis P.I.Forst.

Forster, P.I. (1992) Australian Systematic Botany 5(5): 573. Type: Qld, Kauri Creek road, S.F. 185 Danbulla (17 06 S, 145 35E), 27.i.1992, P. I. Forster 9553; holo: BRI; iso: A, B, BISH, DNA, L, MEL, NY, PERTH.

Grows into a tree-top vine, stem diameters to 5 cm recorded. Lenticels pale, large and conspicuous, elongated laterally. Milky exudate from the pith as well as the bark.

Leaves produced in whorls of three or four. Twigs and petioles produce a milky exudate. Leaf blades about 5.5-9 x 2-3.5 cm, petioles about 0.2-1.2 cm long, grooved on the upper surface. Leaves thick and leathery, lateral vein angle almost 90.

Flowers about 2.5-4 mm diam. Sepals triangular, about 1.7-2.5 mm long, sparsely hairy. Corolla tube about 2.5-3 mm long, hairy on the inner surface, lobes about 1.4-2.5 mm long, reflexed at anthesis. Anthers triangular, finely pointed at the apex. Ovaries fused at the base, each about 0.5 mm long.

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Endemic to NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1300 m. Grows in a variety of rain forests but is more common in mountain rain forest, particularly on granite.