Meiogyne Cylindrocarpa Click on Images to Enlarge

Meiogyne Cylindrocarpa Click on Images to Enlarge

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 Meiogyne cylindrocarpa Click on images to enlarge Family Annonaceae Scientific Name Meiogyne cylindrocarpa (Burck) Heusden Heusden, E.C.H. van (1994) Blumea 38(2): 499. Flowers [not vouchered]. Copyright G. Sankowsky Stem A small tree less than 30 cm dbh. Blaze finely layered with fibrous stripes in the outer blaze. Leaves Leaf blades about 3.5-5.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm. Oil dots visible with a lens. Twig bark strong and fibrous when stripped. Oak grain in the twigs. Buds and young shoots clothed in cream or pale brown hairs. Flower. Copyright R.L. Barrett Flowers Inflorescence 1-4 flowered, appear terminal or axillary, solitary. Flowers 12-13 mm across. Bracts 3-5, about 0.7-2 x 0.8-1.4 mm. Pedicels about 4-7 mm long, pubescent. Sepals depressed ovate to ovate, about 1-3 x 1- 3.5 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals slightly imbricate or valvate (?) at the apex, spreading, narrowly to broadly (triangular-)ovate to elliptic. Outer 3 petals about 5-22 x 3-8 mm wide. Inner 3 petals about 5-16 x 3-6.5 mm, pubescent on both sides. Stamens ca. 28, about 1.2-2 mm long, apex shield-like, elongated in the inner whorl. Ovaries 2-14, densely hairy. Ovules 6 or 7 per ovary. Stigma globose to discoid or to oblong-obovoid, fleshy, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Flower. Copyright R.L. Barrett Fruit Fruits about 12-33 x 10-16 mm on stalks about 2-5 mm long. Seeds about 7-9 x 4-6 mm, 1-3 per fruiting carpel. Embryo minute. Seedlings First pair of leaves shortly petiolate, alternate, ovate, margins smooth, mainly glabrous. Small oil dots visible with a lens. Stem clothed in cream or pale brown hairs. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves ovate or lanceolate, Leaves and fruit. Copyright CSIRO apex acute or acuminate, base obtuse or cuneate; petioles short, pubescent. Seed germination time 115 to 199 days. Distribution and Ecology A widespread but inconspicuous species in WA, NT and CYP. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 300 m. Grows in the drier types of rain forest and in monsoon forest. Also occurs in Malesia. Natural History & Notes Fruit [not vouchered]. Copyright G. Sankowsky Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall) X Tree X Synonyms Meiogyne cylindrocarpa (Burck) Heusden subsp. cylindrocarpa, Jessup, L.W. in Flora of Australia 2: 53 (2007). Polyaulax cylindrocarpa (Burck) Backer, Blumea 5 5: 493 (1942). Mitrephora cylindrocarpa Burck, Nova Guinea 8: 433 (1911), Type: New Guinea, near Okaba, 27 Sept. 1907, Fruit. Copyright R.L. Barrett Branderhorst 107; holo: U; iso: A, B, K, L. RFK Code 902 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. Leaves and fruit. Copyright R.L. Barrett Fruit opened. Copyright R.L. Barrett Fruit opened and seeds. Copyright R.L. Barrett Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO Cotyledon stage, durian germination. Copyright CSIRO.

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