Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Timonius singularis (F.Muell.) L.S.Sm.
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Smith, L.S. (1957) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 68: 50.
Fig, False; False Fig
Usually an epiphyte but occasionally found as a lithophyte, resembling a fig (Ficus spp.). Hard, brittle, longitudinal stripes usually visible in the inner blaze.
Fruits depressed globular, about 10 x 15 mm. Seeds about 4 x 1-1.3 mm. Embryo about 3-4 mm long. Cotyledons about as wide as the radicle.
Cotyledons ovate, about 4-5 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade obovate or elliptic, apex acuminate, base attenuate, glabrous, secondary venation +/- parallel to primary veins; stipules interpetiolar, sheathing, oblong-triangular with a few hairs on the outer surface. Seed germination time 8 to 31 days.
Fruit eaten by several species of birds. Cooper & Cooper (1994).
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