Alectryon forsythii Domin

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Alectryon

Characteristics

Tree to 8 m high. Branchlets and peduncles finely puberulent or glabrescent. Leaf rachis 1–1.5 cm long; leaflets 1 or 2 pairs; lamina elliptic to elliptic-ovate, broadly obtuse or subacute, apiculate, entire, obtuse at base, decurrent, 4.5–6.5 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide, densely prominently reticulate, glabrous or lower surface puberulous, greyish white; petiolule subterete, 3–8 mm long; petiole 1.7–2.5 cm long. Panicle to 7 cm long. Flowers 5.5 mm diam.; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Calyx 2.5 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, glabrescent. Petals absent. Fruit subsessile, compressed, transversely ellipsoidal, usually 2-or 3-lobed, 6–10 mm long, 7–17 mm diam., glabrous; pericarp thin, crustaceous. Aril granular.
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Mature height (meter) 8.0
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Environment

Grows along eastern escarpments of the Northern Tablelands in rocky gorges.
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Distribution

Alectryon forsythii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781651-1
WFO ID wfo-0000525466
COL ID BM5H
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Synonyms

Alectryon forsythii Nephelium forsythii