Croton schultzii Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Croton

Characteristics

Shrub to 4 m high. Indumentum silver. Branchlets with dense overlapping peltate scales, glabrescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 3–6 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic to broadly ovate, 20–120 mm long, 15–100 mm wide; base cordate; margins entire or weakly sinuate; tip acute to short acuminate; venation penninerved [inconsistent with key to spp. step 6-Editor] with 6–11 lateral veins per side of midrib, tertiary reticulate veins obscure; lower surface iridescent silver, lateral veins weakly visible, with dense overlapping peltate scales; extrafloral nectaries absent, or if present then 2 at base of lamina, ellipsoid, sessile, visible below only. Male flowers: pedicels 2–4 mm long; sepals lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 2.5–2.8 mm long; petals lanceolate, 2.3–4 mm long; stamens 10. Styles 3, bifid once. Fruit trilobate, globose, 6–8 mm long, 7–8 mm diam., with sparse peltate scales.
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Growth form shrub
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Mature height (meter) 4.0
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Environment

Grows in deciduous vinethicket on substrates derived from red laterite or limestone.
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Distribution

Croton schultzii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:343446-1
WFO ID wfo-0000932298
COL ID ZR3Q
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Synonyms

Croton schultzii