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Family Scientific Name Streblus brunonianus (Endl.) F.Muell. Female flower [not vouchered]. CC-BY J.L. Dowe Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6: 192. Common name Fig, Prickly; Grey Handlewood; Prickly Fig; Ragwood; White Handlewood; Whalebone Tree; Waddywood; Axehandle Wood Stem Bark exudate not copious. White vertical stripes in the outer blaze under the lenticels. Leaves Copyright Barry Jago Leaf blades about 5-8 x 2.5-4 cm. Underside of the leaf blade somewhat rough, resembling sandpaper when touched with the lips, upper surface +/- smooth. Freshly broken petioles produce a milky exudate. Lateral veins forming loops inside the blade margin. Flowers Male and female flowers sessile, inflorescence bracts cordate, reniform, peltate. Male flowers: Inflorescence about 10-50 mm long. Staminal filaments about 2 mm long. Female flowers: Inflorescence about 5-10 mm long. Ovary about 1.5-2 mm long. Style arms about 4-5 mm long. Fruit Fruits about 8 x 8 mm. Perianth persistent at the base and style arms persistent at the apex. Seed about 4 x Male flowers. Copyright CSIRO 3.5-4 mm. Embryo +/- U-shaped in outline, cotyledons folded, each +/- hemispherical, much wider than the radicle. Seedlings Cotyledons obovate, about 3-4 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade ovate or narrowly ovate, apex acuminate, base obtuse, upper surface glabrous, lower surface scabrous; petiole hairy; stipules elongate- triangular. Seed germination time 18 to 22 days. Distribution and Ecology Endemic to , occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as south-eastern New South Wales. Fruit, side views and seed. Copyright W. T. Cooper Altitudinal range in CYP and NEQ from near sea level to 800 m. Grows in well developed rain forest, gallery forest and drier, more seasonal rain forest. Natural History & Notes Used to make tool handles, hockey sticks, polo heads, cobbler's lasts and baseball bats. Swain (1928). Treated as Strebulus brunonianus (Endl.) F.Muell. in Qld. Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall) X Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO Tree X Synonyms brunoniana Endl., Atakta Botanika : t.32 (1834), Type: t. 32 (Fide Chew W. L. Flora Australia 3: 18). Pseudomorus brunoniana (Endl.) Bureau, Annales des Sciences Naturelles ser. 5, 11 : 372 (1869). Pseudomorus brunoniana (Endl.) Bureau var. brunoniana, Annales des Sciences Naturelles ser. 5, 11 : 373 (1869). Pseudomorus brunoniana var. australiana Bureau, Annales des Sciences Naturelles ser. 5, 11 : 373(1869). Pseudomorus brunoniana (Endl.) Bureau var. obtusata Bureau, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. ser. 4 11: 373 (1869). Pseudomorus pendulina var. australiana Stearn, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 28: 427 (1947). RFK Code 135 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

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

Female flowers, side view, tepals, ovary, style & hairy stigmas. Copyright CSIRO

Male flower Hairy tepals & anthers. Copyright CSIRO