Apodytes brachystylis F.Muell.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9: 149. Type: In silvis pone Rochinghams Bay; Dallachy.

Buff Alder; Alder, Buff

Seldom grows beyond 30 cm dbh.

Petiole yellow and grooved on the upper surface. Leaf blades about 8-15 x 3-5 cm, margin undulate towards the apex.

Petals about 3-4.5 mm long, hairy on the inner surface. Ovary zygomorphic, usually green but orange towards the base.

Receptacle about 5 mm long, blue-green, blue-grey or blue-black, fleshy and swollen, enclosing the base of the green fruiting carpel like a fleshy egg cup. Fruiting carpel about 12-15 mm long.

Cotyledons ovate, about 15-18 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves elliptic, apex acuminate. Seed germination time 187 to 236 days.

Endemic to Queensland, occurs in NEQ and in the northern part of CEQ at Mt Elliot. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1200 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites but tends to be more common in upland and mountain situations.