Alectryon reticulatus Radlk.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Alectryon

Characteristics

Tree to shrubl Twigs angular or terete, 1-2.5 mm thick, subglabrous, glabrescent. Leaves 2-or 3-jugate; petiole semiterete, 2-3.5 cm long; petiolules (0-)3-5 mm long, above grooved with a fine rib. Leaflets alternate, elliptic, 5-9 by 2-3 cm, index 2.5-3, pergamentaceous; the midrib beneath sparsely appressed short-hairy, otherwise glabrous; base symmetrical or in upper leaflets slightly oblique, acute, attenuate; margin entire; apex not or slightly acuminate, narrowly rounded to slightly emarginate; midrib above prominulous; nerves 0.5-1 cm apart, spreading, nearly straight, indistinctly looped and joined towards the margin, prominulous on both sides; intersecondary nerves well developed, veins and veinlets laxly reticulate, prominulous on both sides. Inflorescences axillary, a slender thyrse up to 11 cm long, in fruit still slight-ly hairy; peduncle c. 1 cm long; branches 1 or 2, patent; cymules (sub)sessile. Flowers unknown. Sepals probably 5, fairly highly connate, outside slightly hairy. Pistil 1-locular. Fruits subglobular, c. 7.5 mm diam., with a small stylar hook laterally halfway, stigma not lobed; wall rugose, subgla-brous, hard, c. 0.5 mm thick.
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Tree 3–10 m high. Branchlets and inflorescence usually puberulent. Leaf rachis 1.5–9 cm long; leaflets 4–8, alternate or opposite; lamina elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate or obtuse, entire, oblique and acute or obtuse at base, shortly attenuate, 4–13 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, glabrous or lower surface puberulent, veins and reticulation prominent; petiolule 3–7 mm long; petiole 2–6 cm long. Panicle 3.5–11 cm long; pedicels to 3 mm long. Calyx 0.5–1 mm long, shallowly broadly lobed, glabrescent. Petals absent. Fruit sessile, usually 1-lobed; lobes obliquely obovoid, 8–16 mm long, 8–14 mm diam., turgid, glabrous; pericarp ± thin, drying crustaceous. Aril granular, deep red.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Alectryon reticulatus world distribution map, present in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Conservation status

Alectryon reticulatus threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781664-1
WFO ID wfo-0000525487
COL ID BM66
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Synonyms

Alectryon reticulatus