Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Canarium acutifolium (DC.) Merr.
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Family
Merrill, E.D. (1917) Int. Rumph. : 302.
Stem
Blaze odour faint, exudate slow and meagre.
Leaves
Flowers
Inflorescence up to 30-50 cm long. Petals about 3 mm long. Disk bright orange.
Fruit
Fruits about 12-15 mm long. Cotyledons 3-lobed.
Seedlings
Cotyledons trifoliolate, petiole hairy. First pair of leaves with toothed margins. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves simple or compound with three leaflets, midrib hairy on upper surface; petiole hairy; stipules linear, hairy. Seed germination time 28 days.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Marignia acutifolia DC., Prodromus 2: 79(1825), Type: Rumphius Herbarium Amboinensis 2 (1741) 160, t. 52.
RFK Code
801
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