Planchonella chartacea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.J.Lam

Sapotaceae

Lam, H.J. (1925) Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg Series 3 7: 217.

Plum, Thin Leaved; Thin Leaved Plum; Thin Leaved Coondoo; Planchonella; Dugulla

Bark exudate meagre. Narrow yellowish vertical stripes visible in the blaze.

Midrib raised on the upper surface. Petioles produce a milky exudate. Leaf blades about 5.5-18 x 1.6-5.5 cm.

Sepals ovate, 3.5-4.5 x 2.5-3.2 mm, sericeous near the apex on the inner and outer surfaces. Corolla 3.4-4.5 mm long. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla, filaments about 1 mm long, anthers about 1 mm long. Staminodes lanceolate-liguliform, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary 3.5-4.5 mm long, disk adnate to the ovary, densely ferruginously hirsute. Style 1-1.2 mm long.

Fruits ovoid or globose, about 15-22 x 5-15 mm. Seeds about 2-5 per fruit, ellipsoid, laterally compressed, about 9-20 x 5-10 x 3-7 mm. Testa hard and woody, hilum narrow, about 1 mm wide, half as long as the seed.

Cotyledons +/- elliptic, about 17-22 mm long. First pair of leaves obovate, about 15-35 x 5-8 mm. Midrib raised on the upper surface. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade linear or linear-obovate, apex acute, base attenuate, glabrous; petioles of young leaves and terminal bud clothed in reddish brown hairs. Seed germination time 18 to 203 days.

Occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as north-eastern New South Wales. Altitudinal range from sea level to 750 m. Grows in well developed lowland and upland rain forest on a variety of sites. Also occurs in New Guinea and Indonesia.

Produces a useful general purpose timber.

Wood specific gravity 0.86 Cause et al. (1989).

Pouteria chartacea (Benth.) Baehni, Boissiera 11 : 59(1965). Beccariella chartacea (Benth.) Aubrev., Adansonia ser. 2 4: 232(1967). Sersalisia chartacea (Benth.) Domin, Bibliotheca Botanica 89(4): 1062(1928). Sideroxylon chartaceum (Benth.) F.Muell., Systematic Census of Australian Plants : 91(1883). Achras chartacea F.Muell. ex Benth., Flora Australiensis 4: 281(1868), Type: Queensland. Tamoshanter Point, Dallachy. [given by P. van Royen, Blumea 8 (1957) 410 as Dallachy s.n. in MEL.].