WorldFloraDB - Alectryon diversifolius

Characteristics

Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets puberulent towards apex. Leaves often fasciculate; lamina subelliptic, obovate or cuneate, obtuse, mucronate, tridentate or truncate, coarsely sharply serrate, dentate or laciniate, subentire or entire, cuneate at base, 1.5–5.5 cm long, 0.4–1.5 cm wide, glabrous; petiole to 4 mm long. Flowers 3.5 mm diam., solitary or in small clusters or racemes; pedicels 3 mm long. Calyx 3.5 mm wide, broadly 5-lobed, lobes ovate, glabrous. Stamens 6–8, filaments 2–5 mm long. Fruit sessile, transversely ellipsoidal or depressed obovoid, 0.6–1.2 cm long, 0.6–1.4 cm diam., 1-or 2-lobed; pericarp drying thick and ± woody, glabrous or puberulous.

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A shrub or small tree. The leaves are simple and alternate. On the small branches they are often clustered. The leaves vary in shape. They are 2-6 cm long by about 1 cm wide. Young leaves have spiny teeth. The flowers can occur singly or in small clusters. The fruit is a capsule with 2 lobes. The seeds are black. They have a red aril or fleshy layer aorund them.

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Environment

It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It grows in dry rainforest and in vine thickets.

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Usually growing in Brigalow scrub in dark clay.

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The red aril or fleshy layer of the fruit is edible.

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Plants can be grown from seeds or cuttings.

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