Glochidion Philippicum Click on Images to Enlarge

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Family Phyllanthaceae Scientific Name Glochidion philippicum (Cav.) C.B.Rob. Robinson, C.B. (1909) Philippine Journal of Science C. Botany 4 : 103.

Common name Leaves and male flowers. Copyright CSIRO Buttonwood; Daintree Cheese Tree; Philippine Buttonwood; Pin Flower Tree Stem Dead bark layered. Leaves Leaf blades about 6-11 x 2-3.5 cm. Midrib slightly raised on the upper surface. Leaf bearing twigs clothed in Habit, leaves and flowers. Copyright CSIRO tortuous hairs. Flowers Male flowers: Inflorescence with or without a peduncle, sometimes supra-axillary. Flowers about 3 mm diam. without a disk. Flowers tomentellous. Female flowers: Flowers about 2 mm diam., pedicellate. Styles fused to form a hemispherical or button-shaped mass on the top of the ovary. Fruit Capsules about 12-15-lobed, about 10-12 mm diam., resembling a miniature Queensland Blue pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo). Leaves and fruits. Copyright CSIRO Seedlings Cotyledons ovate, about 10-12 x 7 mm. First pair of leaves with stipules about 1.5 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves obovate, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate to attenuate, usually a few hairs along the midrib on the upper surface, veins 7-10 each side of the midrib. Petioles hairy; stipules hairy, triangular, apex acuminate. Seed germination time 13 to 72 days. Distribution and Ecology Occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 800 m. Usually grows in well developed rain forest on the coastal lowlands subject to periodic disturbance but also found in gallery forest. Also occurs in Taiwan, Malesia and the Solomon Islands. 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO Natural History & Notes Food plant for the larval stages of the Blue Moonbeam Butterfly. Common & Waterhouse (1981). Produces a useful general purpose timber. Wood specific gravity 0.70. Cause et al. (1989). Tree X Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO Synonyms Bradleia philippica Cav., Icones 3: 48(1797), Type: Philippines ?. Phyllanthus ferdinandii var. ? mollis Benth., Flora Australiensis 6: 97(1873), Type: Queensland, Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy: holo: K?; Iso: MEL?. Glochidion ferdinandi var. mollis (Benth.) F.M.Bailey, The Queensland Flora 5: 1424(1902). RFK Code 804 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images.