Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition

Apodytes brachystylis F.Muell.


Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall)
Tree
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Flower and bud. © Barry Jago
Flowers and buds. © Barry Jago
Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO
Fruit and receptacle, three views. © W. T. Cooper
Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
Family

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

Common name

Buff Alder; Alder, Buff

Stem

Seldom grows beyond 30 cm dbh.

Leaves

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

Flowers

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

Fruit

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.

Seedlings

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

Distribution and Ecology

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.

RFK Code
158
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