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Family Scientific Name Guettarda speciosa L. Linnaeus, C. von (1753) Plantarum 2: 991. Type: Habitat in Java. Flowers [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Dowe Common name Sea Randia; Zebra Wood Stem Occasionally grows into a tree but usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 2-5 m tall. Leaves Flowers. Copyright B. Gray Leaf blades usually rather large, about 10-23 x 10-17 cm. Petioles about 1.8-3.5 cm long. Stipules very broadly lanceolate, about 10-20 mm long, +/- longitudinally veined. Petioles clothed in pale coloured hairs. Twigs marked by numerous pale coloured lenticels. Flowers Flowers usually strongly perfumed. Peduncles about 5-10 cm long but individual flowers sessile. Calyx about 5-6 mm long, pubescent on the outer surface, often with a solitary lobe. Corolla tube about 17-35 mm long, throat (i.e. inner surface near apex) hairy, lobes about 10-15 mm long. Anthers about 2-3.5 mm long, sessile.

Fruit Leaves and flowers. Copyright B. Gray Fruits sessile, +/- globose, about 15-25 mm diam., surface smooth, pericarp fibrous. Seeds about 4-6 per individual fruit. Cotyledons very short, not exceeding the diameter of the radicle and certainly much shorter. Seedlings Cotyledons obovate or spathulate, sessile, about 4-6 x 1.5-2 mm, stipulate. Stipules about 2 mm long. Hypocotyl long and slender. First pair of leaves pubescent, opposite, stipulate. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade +/- lanceolate, about 5.5-6.5 x 2-3 cm, pubescent on both the upper and lower surfaces, stipules large, about 9-10 mm long, broadly lanceolate, hairy on the outer surface and +/- longitudinally veined. Petiole about 1 cm long. Seed germination time 53 to 607 days.

Distribution and Ecology Immature fruit. Copyright CSIRO Occurs in NT, CYP, NEQ and CEQ. Altitudinal range quite small being found just above sea level. Grows in beach forest and strand vegetation. Also occurs in Africa, Asia, Malesia and the Pacific islands. Natural History & Notes This species may have medicinal properties. Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall) X Tree Fruit, three views and endocarp. Copyright W. T. Cooper X RFK Code 1113 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO

Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO

1st leaf stage, bird's eye view. Copyright CSIRO

10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

Cotyledon and 1st leaf stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO