Diploglottis obovata S.T.Reynolds

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Diploglottis

Characteristics

Small to medium tree 25 m high. Young parts, branchlets and leaf axes densely tomentose and finely villous with shiny ±crispate pale to brown-rusty hairs. Leaf rachis 1.5–7 (–8.5) cm long; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, the lamina obovate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtuse to ±rounded or truncate at apex, cuneate or obtuse and oblique at base, 5.5–12 (–16.5) cm long, 2.8–7 cm wide, glabrous above, finely puberulent below, midrib and veins (below) finely pubescent; petiolules 0.3–0.7 (–1) cm long; petiole 2–4 (–5.5) cm long. Panicle 7.5–19 cm long; bracts c. 2.5 mm long and 1 mm wide, brown velvety; flowers 3–5 mm diam.; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Calyx finely pale crispate tomentose outside, the lobes 2–3 mm long. Petals 5, one slightly reduced, obovate, 2.5–3 mm long. Disc incomplete. Fruit transversely ellipsoid or subglobose, 1–3-sulcate, yellow, 1.4–1.6 cm long, 1.4–3 cm wide; valves thin, finely pubescent outside, densely or sparsely hairy inside with long appressed pale hairs.
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Usually on creek banks in notophyll vine forests; also in other rainforest types.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Diploglottis obovata world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:932686-1
WFO ID wfo-0000650215
COL ID 36LL4
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Synonyms

Diploglottis obovata