Guioa Lasioneura Radlk

Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Guioa lasioneura Radlk. Family: Sapindaceae Radlkofer, L.A.T. (1879) Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der k. b. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Munchen 4 : 608. Type: Australia orientalis: Dallachy (Rockingham Bay). Common name: Silky Tamarind; Tamarind, Silky; Woolly Nerved Guioa Stem Sapwood surface corrugated. Leaves Leaflets sessile or with very short stalks about 0.2-0.5 cm long, swollen at their junction with the rhachis. Leafy twigs and compound leaf rhachis with a dense covering of brown hairs. Usually 2-4 leaflets in each compound leaf. Leaflet blades about 3.5-12.5 x 1.5-4 cm. Midrib hairy and raised on Flower and buds. © Barry Jago the upper surface of the leaflet blade. Flowers Calyx lobes about 1.5-2.5 mm long. Petals shorter than the calyx. Each petal with a 2-lobed scale on the inner surface. Stamens eight. Disk yellow, unilateral in female flowers but almost continuous in male flowers except for one narrow indentation. Fruit Capsules glabrous, 3-lobed, about 8-14 x 10-22 mm overall. Aril completely enclosing the seed. Leaves and Flowers. © CSIRO Seedlings Cotyledons fleshy, without venation, apex acuminate. First pair of leaves with opposite or alternate leaflets, margins finely serrate. Petiole and rhachis winged and hairy. At the tenth leaf stage: leaflet blades +/- elliptic, apex acuminate, upper surface with a few hairs along the midrib. Seed germination time 7 to 15 days. Distribution and Ecology Endemic to Queensland, occurs in NEQ and CEQ. Altitudinal range from sea level to 1000 m. Grows Fruit, two views, dehiscing, as an understory tree in well developed lowland and upland rain forest. dehisced and arillous seed. © W. Natural History & Notes T. Cooper Orange arils eaten by Speckled Fruit Bats and several species of birds. Cooper & Cooper (1994). RFK Code 32

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