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Hicksbeachia pilosa P.H.Weston

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Hicksbeachia

Characteristics

Conflorescence and young shoots ferruginous-pilose. Adult leaves mostly 54-90 cm long, with 7-32 lobes and pinnae; rachis prominently winged only towards tip; lobes 0-4; pinnae 3-32; lobes and pinnae convex, chartaceous, with recurved, but scarcely sinuate margins, usually prominently bullate between secondary and tertiary veins; largest pinnae 11-34 cm long, 2.5-8.5 cm wide; secondary and tertiary veins prominently raised on undersurface, usually only slightly raised on upper surface. Conflorescence axis 15-56 cm long; flower pair bracts 0.3-1 mm long; peduncle 0.3-3 mm long; pedicels 0-1.5 mm long. Tepals 19-23 mm long, pale mauve to dark purple. Gynoecium 18-22 mm long; ovary densely hairy. Fruit 40-47 mm long, 26-30 mm wide, red.
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A tree up to 10 m high. The leaves are compound and alternate. They are up to 1.5 m long. There are 21-33 leaflets and these are 6-27 cm long. There are a few hairs underneath the leaf. The fruit are 30-50 mm long by 25-30 mm wide. These hang in groups along a stalk and occur in the axils of leaves as well as on branches and trunks. There is one seed inside. The seed is 25-30 mm long by 15-20 mm wide. The seed is edible.
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A tropical plant. It grows naturally in rainforest in NE Queensland in Australia. It grows from sea level to 1030 m altitude. It can tolerate light frosts.
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Occurs in rainforest.
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Plants are grown from fresh seed.
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Distribution

Hicksbeachia pilosa world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:935321-1
WFO ID wfo-0000723226
COL ID 3LKG9
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Synonyms

Hicksbeachia pilosa
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