Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Elaeodendron melanocarpum F.Muell.
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Flower. © Barry Jago
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Flower. © Barry Jago
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Family
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3: 62. Type: Ad portum Denisonii. Eug. Fitzalan.
Common name
False Olive; Black Olive Plum; Plum, Olive; Olive Plum; Plum, Black Olive; Olive, False
Stem
Seldom exceeding 30 cm dbh.
Leaves
Flowers
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Cassine melanocarpa (F.Muell.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 114(1891). Barringtonia sphaerocarpa C.A.Gardner, WA Forests Department Bulletin 32: 69(1923), Type: Basalt creeks near the Lawley River, WA, 27 July 1921, C. A. Gardiner 1491; holo: PERTH. Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 114(1891).
RFK Code
304
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