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Fontainea australis

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Tribe
  
Codiaeae

Scientific name
  
Fontainea australis

Order
  
Subfamily
  
Crotonoideae

Genus
  
Fontainea

Rank
  
Species

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Fontainea oraria, Fontainea rostrata, Fontainea, Syzygium hodgkinsoniae, Endiandra hayesii

Fontainea australis is a rare rainforest plant from eastern Australia. The common name is Southern Fontainea. It grows in sub tropical rainforest at low altitudes on basaltic alluvial soils. Distributed from the Wilsons River (New South Wales) to the Tallebudgera Valley in south eastern Queensland.

Description

A shrub or small tree to 5 metres tall. Leaves are 6 to 9 cm long and 2 to 3.5 cm wide, alternate on the stem. Reverse ovate or elliptic in shape with a long leaf tip, and narrow wedge shaped at the leaf base. The leaf stalk are between 5 and 21 mm long, swollen at both ends, and somewhat channelled. Small white flowers appear on panicles flowers December to January. The fruit matures in July, being a red fleshy ovate shaped capsule, 2.3 cm in diameter.

References

Fontainea australis Wikipedia


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