Cadellia pentastylis F.Muell.

Surianaceae

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(12): 26, t. XII.

Ooline; Scrub Myrtle; Solidwood

Usually small tree, sometimes to 28 m; bark dark-grey, fissured longitudinally; new growth pinkish; buds with sparse simple hairs; stems glabrous; stipule 2, free, curved-ovate, 1 - 5mm, ciliate, falling early.

Simple, alternate; lamina elliptic to obovate, (10) 20 - 40(70) mm; apex obtuse or emarginate; base cuneate; upper surface glossy dark-green, glabrous; petiole 2 - 7 mm with a sessile oval gland at distal end of adaxial surface.

Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, initially cream or yellow, axillary and solitary or in few-flowered panicles; sepals 5, 3 - 5mm, persistent and enlarged in the fruit, turning pink; petals 5, 5 - 7mm, not persistent in fruit; stamens unequal, a whorl of 5 fertile and a whorl of 4 or 5 staminodes; carpels 5, free; ovaries superior.

Fleshy drupes, a cluster of 5 (appearing nut-like when dry) surrounded by enlarged sepals; drupes obovoid, 3 - 5mm long, brownish; stone 1-seeded.

Not available.

Endemic to Australia, occurs in CEQ and southwards as far as inland north eastern New South Wales. Altitudinal range inCEQfrom 200-680 m. Grows in dry rainforest, vine thickets and sclerophyll communities.

Guilfoylia pentastylis F.M.Bailey, Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants : 85 (1913).

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