Acronychia crassipetala T.G.Hartley

Species

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Characteristics

Tree to 18 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole 0.9–2.5 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 6–13 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, rounded to obtusely acuminate, with acumen to 0.5 cm long. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary and/or infrafoliar, 2–3.5 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long (2–4 mm long in fruit), glabrous to puberulous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 2.2–3 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 9–12 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary sparsely pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures at least in distal 1/2. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose in outline, 10–15 mm long, without stylar beak, glabrous; occasional fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial T.S. with outer part of pericarp  0.5–1.5 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp and spongy mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 4 mm long.
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A small tree. It grows up to 8 m tall. The leaves have one leaflet which is an ellipse in shape. It is 9 cm long by 5 cm wide. The leaf is leathery and dark green. Flowers are pink and occur in small groups. The flowers are about 1.5 cm across and with very thick petals. The fruit are round with 4 lobes and about 1.2-3 cm across. They occur on branched stalks in the angles where leaves join the stem. They have a smell like orange peel. The fruit is edible. There are usually four seeds and they are 0.4 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 13.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It occurs naturally in Northeast Queensland, Australia. It occurs in highland rainforests. It grows between 450-1200 m altitude.
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Grows in rainforest, 800–1200 m altitude. 
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Edible fruits
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Cultivation

It is grown from seed. The seed are probably difficult to germinate. It can probably be grown from cuttings.
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Images

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Distribution

Acronychia crassipetala world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770673-1
WFO ID wfo-0000518802
COL ID 9NJV
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Synonyms

Acronychia crassipetala