Australian Tropical Rainforest - Online edition inophylla (G.Forst.) P.S.Green Family: Green, P.S. (1986) Kew Bulletin 41(3): 1026. Common name: Birch, Ivory; Brush Bloodwood; Ivory Birch; Scrub Bloodwood Stem Bark exudate watery red or almost colourless and rapidly turning red on exposure. Fine black stripes usually visible in the blaze. Leaves Leaf blades about 9-18 x 4-6.5 cm. Lateral veins forming loops inside the blade margin. Small oil dots visible with a lens. Female flowers [not vouchered]. © Flowers G. Sankowsky Male and female flowers about 10-15 mm diam. Sepals pubescent on the adaxial surface. Fruit Fruit about 12-18 mm diam. Aril quite small, +/- equivalent to a caruncle. Seedlings Cotyledons elliptic, about 35-40 x 15-22 mm. Cataphylls produced between the cotyledons and the first pair of true leaves. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade elliptic, apex bluntly acuminate; stem encircled by conspicuous scars resembling stipular scars. Glands visible on the edge of the leaf Leaves and male flowers. © blade close to its junction with the petiole. Seed germination time 20 to 59 days. Australian Image Index Distribution and Ecology (APII). Photographer: M. Fagg. Occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as south eastern . Altitudinal range in NEQ from 400-900 m. Grows in drier rain forest often associated with Kauri Pine (Agathis robusta). Also occurs in and Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. Synonyms inophyllus Forst. f., Prodr. : 67(1786), Type: New Caledonia, lecto: K; iso: BM, GOET. Fide Green , Kew Bull. 41: 1026 (1986). Baloghia lucida Endl., Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae : 84(1833), Type: Bauer, Holo: W. lucidum (Endl.) Mull.Arg., Prodromus Fruit [not vouchered]. © G. 15(2.: 1116(1866). Sankowsky RFK Code 389

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Cotyledon stage, Epigeal germination. © CSIRO

10th leaf stage. © CSIRO

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