Helicia recurva Foreman

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Helicia

Characteristics

Tree to 10 m tall. Branchlets ferruginous-tomentose towards tips, glabrescent lower down. Leaves: petiole 5-8 mm long; lamina usually elliptic, 5-13.5 cm long, 2-5.5 cm wide, sparsely ferruginous-pilose, particularly on midrib and lateral veins; tips acute to acuminate; margin recurved, entire or sparsely dentate apically, sub-bullate, leathery; venation dense, obscure; lateral veins 8-12 pairs. Conflorescence axillary, 7-11.5 cm long, laxly flowered, ferruginous-pilose; pedicels c. 2 mm long. Tepals 10-13 mm long, sparsely ferruginous-pilose; colour unknown; limb c. 3 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide. Anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Hypogynous glands rounded, free. Ovary sparsely ferruginous-to rufous-pilose. Fruit ovoid, 8-11 mm long, 5-7.5 mm diam., becoming dark blue.
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Grows in simple notophyll vine forest in soils derived from granite at altitudes to 1250 m.
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Distribution

Helicia recurva world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:930104-1
WFO ID wfo-0000717994
COL ID 6LJBQ
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Synonyms

Helicia recurva