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Family Scientific Name Gossia dallachiana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) N.Snow & Guymer Snow, N. & Guymer, G.P. (2003) Systematic Botany Monographs 65: 58.

Common name Flower [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Dowe Lignum Stem Seldom exceeding 30 cm dbh. Bark smooth, generally pale, occasionally with pinkish brown patches. Leaves Leaf blade rather large, about 10-20 x 5-12 cm. Oil dots very numerous. Main intramarginal vein about 4-15 mm from the blade margin.

Flowers Fruit, side views and cross section. Copyright W. T. Cooper Petal oil dots yellowish. Petals and sepals pubescent adaxially. Petals about 5-6 mm long. Fruit Fruits globular, about 12 mm diam. or perhaps larger, calyx lobes persistent at the apex. Testa membranous. Cotyledons much narrower than the radicle, pale green and marked by brownish oil dots. Embryo coiled with the cotyledons +/- in the middle of the spiral. Seedlings Cotyledons sessile, lanceolate, about 3-6 x 0.5 mm. Oil dots small, visible with a lens, mainly about the margin and towards the apex. Stipules visible at the cotyledon and early leaf stages. At the tenth leaf stage: Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO leaf blade ovate, apex acute or acuminate with a short mucro; oil dots numerous, orange or yellowish, visible with a lens. Seed germination time 22 to 45 days. Distribution and Ecology Endemic to , occurs in CYP, NEQ and CEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1100 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites. Natural History & Notes Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall) 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO X Tree X Synonyms dallachiana (Benth.) L.S.Sm., Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 67: 35(1956). dallachiana F. Muell ex Benth., Flora Australiensis 3: 287(1867), Type: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy s.n.; Holo: K; Iso: BRI, MEL.

RFK Code 10th leaf stage, cotyledons still attached. Copyright CSIRO 291 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination Cotyledons very narrow. Copyright CSIRO