WorldFloraDB - Flindersia brayleyana

Characteristics

Tree to 35 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves opposite or subopposite, paripinnate, 6–10-foliolate, 20–45 (–75) cm long, neither petiole nor rachis winged; petiolules 10–25 mm long; laminae ovate to elliptic, or broadly so, or subfalcate, usually inequilateral, 8–18.5 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, obtuse to obtusely acuminate. Inflorescences 12–23 cm long. Flowers apparently exclusively bisexual. Sepals c. 0.5 mm long. Petals 2.5–3.5 mm long, white or cream, puberulous in proximal ¾ abaxially, tomentulose adaxially in c. proximal ½. Ovules 1 on each side of placental arms. Capsule 6–10 cm long, separating (or easily separable) into 5 distinct valves at maturity; exocarp almost smooth at maturity, glabrous. Seeds 1 on each side of much-enlarged placental arms, 4.5–6 cm long, winged at both ends. Embryo with terminal hypocotyl.

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Tree to 35 m.. Leaves opposite or subopposite, paripinnate; leaflets 3–5 pairs, ± obliquely elliptic, 8–20 cm. long, subcoriaceous, glabrous.. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, 3–4 mm. long, cream, fragrant, in large corymbose terminal and axillary panicles.. Fruit a 5-valved oblong-elliptic capsule 5–10 cm. long.. Occasionally grown in the Kenya Highlands, e.g. Nairobi, Ossent in E.A.H. 13882!

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	35.0
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Grows in rainforest, 30–1100 m altitude.

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Usage

Uses	material timber wood
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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Optimum temperature (C°)	20 - 30
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