Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Dysoxylum oppositifolium F.Muell.
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Dehisced fruit and arillous seeds. © W. T. Cooper
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
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Cotyledon stage, hypogeal germination. © CSIRO
Family
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5: 177.
Common name
Mahogany, Pink; Pink Mahogany
Stem
Leaves
Midrib raised on the upper surface of the leaflet blade. Leaflet blades about 8-17 x 3.5-5.5 cm. Compound leaf petiole rather sharply angular from the base to the point of attachment of the first pair of leaflets. Domatia (if present) are tufts of hairs around a glandular depression. Terminal buds shaped like a lance head.
Flowers
Fruit
Fruits +/- globular, often 4-lobed in transverse section, about 20-30 mm long, outer surface glabrous, or sparsely tomentellous. Sarcotesta orange or yellow except for a brown or black patch. Cotyledons cream but brown on the periphery.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Natural History & Notes
Produces a useful general purpose timber.
Wood specific gravity 0.88. Cause et al. (1989).
Synonyms
Alliaria oppositifolia (F.Muell.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 109(1891). Alliaria schulzii (C.DC.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 109(1891). Dysoxylum schulzii C.DC., Monographiae Phanerogamarum 1 : 502(1878), Type: In Port Darwin (Schulz, n. 573 in herb. Kew et Berol.). Dysoxylum acutangulum Miq., Flora Indiae Batavae Suppl. : 503(1861), Type: Sumatra.
RFK Code
33
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