Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Gymnostoma australianum L.A.S.Johnson
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Male flowers. © B. Gray
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Fruit. © A. Ford & F. Goulter
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Flowers female. © B. Gray
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Cones and fruit. © W. T. Cooper
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Scale bar 1mm. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage, cotyledon still attached epigeal germination. © CSIRO
Family
Common name
Oak
Stem
Oak grain in the wood.
Leaves
What appear to be needle-like leaves are really twigs and the true leaves (in whorls of four) are just visible to the naked eye when the needles are broken at a joint. Oak grain in the twigs.
Flowers
Fruit
Cones about 7-10 x 8-10 mm, with a broad bract beneath each pair of bracteoles. Samaras about 7-8 mm long.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
RFK Code
726
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