Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Mitrantia bilocularis Peter G.Wilson & B.Hyland
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Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO
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Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO
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Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO
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10th leaf stage. © CSIRO
Family
Wilson, Peter G. & Hyland, B.P.M. (1988) Telopea 3(2): 265. Type: QUEENSLAND: Timber Reserve 55, Whyanbeel, 16 deg 22 S 145 deg 20 E, Hyland 8689, 30.3.1976 (QRS). ISOTYPES: NSW, UNSW.
Stem
Dead bark obscurely layered. Long, pale brown, hard, brittle stripes visible in the blaze.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Fruit about 6.5-10.5 mm diam. Valves projecting about 4-5 mm from the fruiting hypanthium. Seeds irregularly ovoid, about 6-8 mm long. Cotyledons coiled.
Seedlings
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to NEQ, known only from Timber Reserve 55, Whyanbeel. Altitudinal range from 100-250 m. Grows in well developed lowland rain forest or on the boundary between rain forest and wet sclerophyll forest.
RFK Code
455
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