Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Chisocheton longistipitatus (F.M.Bailey) L.S.Sm.
Family
Smith, L.S. (1959) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 70: 29.
Common name
Mahogany, Cream; Cream Mahogany
Stem
Lenticels usually in vertical lines. Stem often marked by large piebald patches about 60 x 60 cm.
Leaves
Compound leaves lack a definite end, each leaf terminated by a number of immature leaflets. Twigs usually marked by very elongated conspicuous lenticels. Small oil dots visible with a lens. Mature leaflet blades about 9-32 x 4-13 cm.
Flowers
Fruit
Fruit about 3-3.5 cm long. Aril fused to the testa (i.e. a sarcotesta).
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Rhetinosperma longistipitatum Radlk., Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachtr. III. to 3(5) : 204(1907), Type: Queensland,Barron River, E. Cowley 8D (1895 - 1899). Castanospora longistipitata F.M.Bailey, The Queensland Flora 1: 288(1899), Type: Scrubs of the Barron River, E. Cowley 8D (1895 - 1899).
RFK Code
275
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