Acronychia aberrans T.G.Hartley

Species

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Characteristics

Tree to 10 m high. Internodes of young branchlets concavely compressed and sharply tetragonous. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole 1.5–5.5 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate,  6–23 cm long, 3–10.3 cm wide, obtuse or acute. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary, 3–4 cm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long (length similar in fruit), nearly glabrous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals c. 1.5 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 7–9 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous, like fruit without septicidal fissures. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose or broadly pyriform, 13–16 mm long, without stylar beak, sparsely pubescent at apex or glabrous; fruiting carpels without ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial T.S. with outer part of pericarp 2.5–3.5 mm thick, exocarp fleshy but mesocarp apparently lacking; endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds 6–7 mm long.
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A tree. It grows to 12 m tall. The leaves have a single leaflet which is shaped like an ellipse. The leaf is 9-29 cm long by 10 cm wide. It is dark green and leathery. The leaf twigs are square in cross section. They have 4 zigzag ridges running along them. The flowers occur in small groups. They are cream in colour. Each flower is about 1.5 cm across. The fruit are pear shaped and pale yellow. The fruit are about 1.5-3.5 cm across. The fruit are lemon scented. The flesh is edible. There are usually four seeds. The seeds are 0.6-0.7 cm long.
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Mature height (meter) 11.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It occurs in Northeast Queensland, Australia. It grows between 680-1400 m altitude. It grows in highland rainforests. It can grow in shaded or sunny positions.
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Grows in rainforest, 720–1000 m altitude.
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Usage

The flesh of the fruit is eaten.
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Distribution

Acronychia aberrans world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770654-1
WFO ID wfo-0000518780
COL ID 9NJB
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Synonyms

Acronychia aberrans