Species information Abo ut Reso urces Hom e A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Carnarvonia araliifolia var. montana Click on images to enlarge Family Proteaceae Scientific Name Carnarvonia araliifolia var. montana B.Hyland Hyland, B.P.M. (1995) Flora of Australia 16: 345. Type: State Forest Reserve 194, Western, QLD, 6 Jan., 1972, Flowers [not vouchered]. Copyright G. Sankowsky B.P.M. Hyland 12206. Common name Red Oak; Oak, Red; Red Silky Oak Stem Oak grain in the wood and a corresponding pattern in the inner blaze. Flowers. Copyright CSIRO Leaves Oak grain in the twigs. Petiole of the compound leaf usually long, 5 cm or more, slender. Leaf variable, digitately compound on large trees but on small trees it is a combination of a digitate and pinnate leaf. Leaflet blades about 7-20 x 4-8 cm. Young shoots clothed in small, brown or dark brown hairs. Lateral veins forming loops well inside the blade margin. Flowers Flowers perfumed like passion fruit (Passiflora spp.). Hairs on the pedicel ferruginous, tortuous, with many hairs +/- erect. Tepals about 3-6 mm long. Hypogynous glands nil. Ovules 2 per ovary. Ovary sessile. Leaves and flowers [not vouchered]. Copyright G. Fruit Sankowsky Fruits 3.6-5 x 1.5-2.1 cm, pedicel laterally attached. Seedlings Cotyledons somewhat fleshy, obovate, about 9-12 mm long, truncate at the apex. First pair of leaves simple, lobed to approaching trifoliolate, margins serrate. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade trifoliolate, margin serrate, expanding new leaves hairy on the upper surface. Seed germination time 15 to 18 days. Distribution and Ecology Leaves and fruit [not vouchered]. Copyright G. Sankowsky Endemic to NEQ, restricted to the area bounded by the Windsor Tableland and Thornton Peak in the north and the southern edge of the Atherton Tableland in the south. Altitudinal range from 650-1200 m. Grows in well developed upland and mountain rain forest. Natural History & Notes Tree X RFK Code Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO 231 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO.