Acronychia pubescens C.T.White

Species

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Characteristics

Shrub, or tree to 15 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or slightly compressed. Leaves trifoliolate or mostly so or rarely exclusively simple; petiole 0.8–8.5 cm long, nearly glabrous to tomentose; laminae elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 5–26 cm long, 1.8–7.7 cm wide, acuminate with acumen to 2.3 cm long or occasionally obtuse, sparsely to densely pubescent below or sometimes glabrous. Inflorescences few–many-flowered, axillary, 2.5–6.5 cm long; pedicels 1–4.5 mm long (length similar in fruit), tomentose or rarely pubescent. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 1.5–2.5 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 6–9 mm long, like staminal filaments subpersistent in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit  4-loculed; ovary pubescent at least towards apex, like fruit with septicidal fissures in distal 1/3–3/4. Fruit syncarpous, ellipsoid to subglobose, 12–18 mm long, without stylar beak, pubescent at least at apex; occasional fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part pericarp less than 0.7 mm thick, exocarp fleshy but mesocarp apparently lacking; endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds 4–4.5 mm long.
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A small tree. It grows 3-10 m high and 3-6 m across. The young shoots are hairy. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are 5-22 cm long by 2-7.5 cm across. They are oblong and hairy underneath. They are dark green on top and paler underneath. The flowers are 2 cm across and cream. They are hairy. The flowers are produced in a branched arrangement in the angles where leaves join the stem. The fruit is 1-2.5 cm across and can be yellow, white or pink. The fruit is hairy and ribbed. The fruit is edible.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) 0.01 - 0.03
Mature height (meter) 9.0 - 12.5
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It is common in rainforests in south-east Queensland and Northeast New South Wales in Australia. It needs well drained soil and plenty of water. It is frost tender when young. It needs a protected position.
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Grows in rainforest, near sea level to 1080 m altitude. 
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The fruit is eaten.
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Edible fruits
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Cultivation

It is grown from seed. It responds to fertiliser.
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Images

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Distribution

Acronychia pubescens world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Acronychia pubescens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770721-1
WFO ID wfo-0000518864
COL ID 64NKM
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Synonyms

Acronychia pubescens Melicope pubescens Acronychia melicopoides var. lasiantha Melicope pubescens var. superba