Antidesma hylandii Airy Shaw

Airy Shaw, H.K. (1981) Kew Bulletin 36: 636. Type: Queensland, between Lockerbie & Somerset, Hyland 10265; holo: K; iso: QRS.

Usually grows into a small tree but also flowers and fruits as a shrub.

Leaf blade about 8.5-17.5 x 3.5-7.5 cm, petioles about 1-2 cm long. Stipules small, filiform, about 2-3 mm long. Lateral veins about 6-8 on each side of the midrib, forming definite loops inside the blade margin. Leaf-bearing twigs marked by numerous longitudinally elongated brown or rusty lenticels. Domatia are tufts of hair.

Male flowers: Flowers in spikes about 15-40 mm long. Female flowers: Flowers in racemes about 20-40 mm long. Flowers about 2-3 mm diam. on pedicels about 1 mm long. Petals absent, tepals about 0.5 x 0.9 mm surrounding a hairy disk. Stamens borne on a densely hairy disk. Anthers about 0.5 x 0.4 mm, filaments about 1 mm long. Styles three, fused together at the base and attached sub-laterally. Each style branch about 1 mm long with two stigmatic branches at the apex.

Fruits laterally compressed, about 3-5 mm diam. Seeds about 3-4.5 mm diam. Testa hard. Cotyledons about 2 x 2 mm, wider than the radicle.

Features not available.

Endemic to CYP. Altitudinal range very small, from near sea level to 100 m. Grows in gallery forest and well developed lowland rain forest.