Eupomatia bennettii F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Magnoliales > Eupomatiaceae > Eupomatia

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.5 m high, often smaller and unbranched; roots with tubers. Stem internodes 2-ridged. Leaves: petiole 4–8 mm long, decurrent with stem ridges; lamina oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 6–20 cm long, 1.3–5 cm wide, acuminate, glabrous; base attenuate; secondary veins 12–16 pairs. Flowers terminal; peduncle c. 0.5 cm long above uppermost foliaceous bract. Floral envelope cap conical, opening by laceration. Stamens obspathulate, (5–) 7–10 (–12) mm long, 1.3–2.5 mm wide near base, glabrous or with scattered minute hairs; anthers 2.2–4 mm long. Outer staminodes oblong to obovate, 7.5–13 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, entire or irregularly dentate, glabrous or fimbriate. Inner staminodes thicker than outer, oblong, 7–10 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, red near base, with stipitate tufts of glandular, unicellular hairs on margins and both surfaces. Aggregate fruit broadly obconical, 2–3 cm diam., greenish yellow.
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A shrub up to 2 m high. The roots are fleshy. The leaves are simple and 8-24 cm long and 2.5-4.5 cm wide. The leaf stalk is swollen at the base. The leaves taper to the tip. The stems zigzag from leaf to leaf. The flowers are yellow and 2.5 cm long. They occur singly in the axils of the upper leaves. The stamens are leaf like and yellow and orange. The fruit are up to 30 mm across. They hang singly at the tips of the twigs. There are several seeds inside. They are 4 mm long. The fruit is edible in small quantities.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Environment

It grows naturally in tropical and warm temperate rainforests in Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. Plants can grow in shady places. Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens.
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Grows in notophyll vine forest and some wet sclerophyll forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten. They have a strong flavour.
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Plants can be grown from seed. They can also probably be grown from cuttings.
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Images

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Distribution

Eupomatia bennettii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:72993-1
WFO ID wfo-0000682814
COL ID 3CWZP
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Synonyms

Eupomatia bennettii