Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Glochidion pungens Airy Shaw
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Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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Female flower Note long stout style. © CSIRO
Family
Airy Shaw, H.K. (1976) Kew Bulletin 31: 349. Type: Qld. Cook District: Main ridge, c. 1 mile (1.4 km) south of Mt. Lewis, alt. 1050 m, 8 Oct 1964, Schodde 4152; holo: BRI.
Common name
Buttonwood; Pin Flower Tree
Stem
Dead bark layered.
Leaves
Flowers
Male flowers: Inflorescence without a peduncle or with an exceedingly short peduncle and +/- axillary. Flowers without a disk. Female flowers: Flowers about 2 mm diam., pedicellate. Style narrowly columnar, much exserted at flowering.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
RFK Code
805
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