Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Dillenia alata (R.Br. ex DC.) Martelli Family: Dilleniaceae Martelli, U. (1886) Malesia 3 : 157. Common name: Golden Guinea Tree; Red Beech; Beech, Red Stem Bark reddish brown, papery. Leaves Leaf blades about 11-23 x 6-13 cm. Petiole winged, base of the petiole clasping the stem and leaving a scar encircling the twig when the leaf falls. Flowers Flower. © Stanley Breeden Inflorescence +/- leaf opposed, i.e. produced on the twigs opposite the leaves. Petals obovate, about 40 x 25 mm. Styles, anthers and staminodes pink or red. Fruit Sepals green, +/- fleshy, persistent even in dehisced fruits. Fruiting carpels about 18-20 x 10-14 mm. Seeds about 4 x 3 mm. Seedlings Cotyledons ovate with a winged petiole. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade margin crenate to sinuate. Petiole strongly winged at and before tenth leaf stage. Seed germination time 34 to 43 days. Dehiscing fruit. © Stanley Breeden Distribution and Ecology Occurs in NT, CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 600 m. Grows in rain forest but frequently found in wet situations in other types of forest, particularly on the coastal lowlands. Also occurs in New Guinea and some of the adjacent islands. Natural History & Notes A medium sized shady tree of considerable horticultural merit which produces large yellow flowers. Synonyms Wormia alata DC., Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 1 : 434(1817), Type: Banks, Endeavour Dehiscing fruit. © W. T. Cooper Riv., Point Look Out; holo: BM; iso:E, P. RFK Code 417 Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO Habit, flower. © CSIRO Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. © CSIRO 10th leaf stage. © CSIRO Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.