Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Margaritaria dubium-traceyi Airy Shaw & B.Hyland
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Leaves and fruit. © Australian Plant Image Index (APII). Photographer: M. Fagg.
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Family
Airy Shaw, H.K. & Hyland, B.P.M. (1976) Kew Bulletin 31: 357. Type: 12 km from Dimbulah on the Petford Road, 17 10 S., 145 00 E., 30 Dec. 1974, Hyland 7937; holo: K; iso: QRS.
Common name
Tracey's Puzzle
Stem
Grows into a small tree but also flowers and fruits as a shrub 3-4 m tall. Deciduous in the dry season.
Leaves
Flowers
Flowers, particularly the male flowers, on long slender pedicels, usually produced when leafless or with the first flush of leaves. Tepals about 1-1.8 mm long.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Australia, occurs in NT, CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from 100-700 m. Usually grows in open forest but sometimes found in monsoon forest and vine thickets.
RFK Code
1084
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