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Family Scientific Name Dysoxylum arborescens (Blume) Miq. Miquel, F.A.W. (1868) Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi 4 : 24. Flowers. Copyright Barry Jago Common name Mahogany; Mossman Mahogany; Mahogany, Mossman Stem Lenticels large and conspicuous, up to 1 cm diameter. Narrow, hard, brittle, pale brown or orange stripes in the blaze. Leaves Compound leaf axis narrowly winged between the basal pair of leaflets and the twig. Small oil dots just Flower. Copyright Barry Jago visible with a lens. Numerous pale brown circular or slightly elongated lenticels visible on the twigs. Leaflet blades about 8.5-18 x 3-7 cm. Flowers Calyx short, +/- trumpet-shaped, lobes acute, spreading +/- horizontally. Outer surface of the corolla sparsely clothed in pale, prostrate hairs. Petals about 7-10 mm long. Stamens ten. Disk resembles a small staminal tube. Ovary pubescent. Fruit Flower and buds. Copyright Barry Jago Fruits depressed globular, about 15-20 mm long, glabrous on the outer surface. Sarcotesta surface 75% orange or red and 25% white. Cotyledons green. Seedlings At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade elliptic, apex acuminate, base attenuate, glabrous on the upper surface; oil dots small, inconspicuous, visible only with a lens. Petiole channelled on the upper surface; hairs on petiole and stem short, prostrate. Seed germination time 33 to 78 days. Dehisced fruit and arillous seed. Copyright W. T. Cooper Distribution and Ecology Occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 200 m. Grows in well developed lowland rain forest on a variety of sites. Also occurs on the Andaman Islands, and the SW Pacific islands. Natural History & Notes Tree X Synonyms Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO Goniocheton arborescens Blume, Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind. 1: 177(1825), Type: , Base of Mt Salak & Mt Seribu, C.L. Blume s.n.; holo: L. nernstii (F.Muell.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 109(1891). Dysoxylum nernstii F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5: 176(1865), Type: In silvis ad sinum litoreum Rockinghams Bay secus rivos salinos. Dallachy. RFK Code 355 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

Cotyledon stage, hypogeal germination. Copyright CSIRO