Phebalium distans P.I.Forst.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Phebalium

Characteristics

Small tree to 8 m high (shrub-like when young). Branchlets sparsely glandular-tuberculate, densely lepidote. Leaves with petiole 1.7–3 mm long; lamina linear, 14–62 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, recurved, entire or sinuate to crenulated near apex, apiculate to shortly acuminate, chartaceous; adaxial surface with sunken midrib, glossy, dark green, sparsely glandular, glabrous; abaxial surface with strongly raised midrib, densely lepidote. Umbels many-flowered; pedicels 4–5 mm long with dense stellate hairs. Calyx shortly subturbinate, 0.8–1 mm long, 1.7–1.8 mm diam., glabrous adaxially, markedly glandular-verrucose abaxially and with sparse stellate hairs; lobes broadly triangular, c. 0.3 mm long. Petals elliptic, 3–3.2 mm long, densely lepidote abaxially. Cocci erect, 3.5–4 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide.
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Growing in semi-evergreen vine thickets in red volcanic soils. 
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Distribution

Phebalium distans world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60426530-2
WFO ID wfo-0000476895
COL ID 4FXLH
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Synonyms

Phebalium distans