Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Lasjia grandis (C.L.Gross & B.Hyland) P.H.Weston & A.R.Mast Family: Proteaceae Mast, A.R., Willis, C.L., Jones, E.H., Downs, K.M. & Weston, P.H. (2008) American Journal of Botany 95(7): 865. Common name: Satin Silky Oak; Oak, Satin Silky Stem Oak grain in the wood and a corresponding pattern in the inner blaze. Leaves Oak grain in the twigs. Leaves in whorls of 3-6. Leaf blades about 8-23 x 2-6 cm. Terminal buds Flowers [not vouchered]. © G. densely clothed in rusty brown hairs. Small, pale lenticels usually conspicuous on the twigs. Sankowsky Flowers Flower bracts curved, about 0.5-0.6 mm long. Flowers paired, but lacking a common peduncle. Tepals sparsely pubescent on the outer surface, about 3-3.5 mm long. Hypogynous glands fused to form a cup (often 4-lobed) surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary sessile, glabrous. Ovules 2. Fruit Fruits +/- globular, about 5-6 x 5-6 cm. Seed about 4 x 4 cm. Endocarp + testa about 2 mm thick. Pericarp marked by rays of radial fibres in transverse section. The rat-eaten remains of the seed coats normally present beneath mature trees. Leaves and flowers [not vouchered]. © G. Sankowsky Seedlings First leaves usually in a whorl of three. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade linear-obovate, apex acute, base cuneate to obtuse, in whorls of three, upper surface hairy along the midrib. Seed germination time 14 to 22 days. Distribution and Ecology Endemic to NEQ, known only from a few collections made in the China Camp area and in the Barong and McNamee Logging Areas. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 450 m. Usually grows in well developed lowland rain forest. Synonyms Macadamia grandis C.L.Gross & B.Hyland, Australian Systematic Botany 6(4): 347(1993), Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO Type: Queensland, State Forest Reserve 755, Barong LA [Logging Area], Gray 1586, 12 xii 1979, (holo: QRS; iso: NSW). RFK Code 422 © CSIRO Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. 10th leaf stage. © CSIRO Cotyledon stage, hypogeal germination. © CSIRO Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.