Medicosma fareana (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley

Rutaceae

Hartley, T.G. (1985) Australian Journal of Botany 33: 36.

White Aspen

Seldom growing beyond 30 cm dbh. Blaze yellowish.

Leaf blades about 9-16 x 2.6-7.4 cm. Oil dots visible with a lens, if not visible to the naked eye. About 12-20 pairs of veins. Leaf bearing twigs either green or pale brown. Petiole shallowly channelled on the upper surface.

Pedicels about 12-28 mm long. Calyx lobes and petals marked by yellow oil dots. Petals about 7-7.5 mm long. Stamens eight, dimorphic, four long and four short. Staminal filaments hairy towards the base. Style hairy towards the base.

Follicles glabrous, about 5.5-6 mm long enclosed in the persistent perianth. Seeds about 5 x 3 mm, testa obscurely striate and minutely papillate, caruncle only slightly developed.

Cotyledons about 8-10 mm long, margins +/- smooth. First pair of leaves trifoliolate, leaflet margins toothed. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade elliptic, apex acuminate, base cuneate or attenuate, oil dots numerous, pale brown, visible with a lens; midrib raised on the upper surface; lateral veins forming loops well inside the blade margin; petiole shallowly channelled with two grooves on the upper surface. Seed germination time 19 days.

Endemic to NEQ, widespread throughout the area. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1000 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites.

Melicope fareana (F.Muell.) Engl., Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3(4) : 122(1896). Euodia fareana F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9: 101(1875), Type: In silvis primaevis trans sinum Rockinghams Bay; Dallachy. [given by T.G.Hartley, Austral. J. Bot. 33 (1985) 36 as Dallachy, 2.xi.1870.).