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Sphenostemon lobosporus (F.Muell.) L.S.Sm.

Species

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Characteristics

Tree to 25 m high. Leaves opposite or in pseudowhorls; lamina oblong or obovate, 8–16 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide, obtuse or obtusely acuminate apex, glabrous, discolorous; petiole 8–20 mm long. Racemes c. 3 cm long. Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse, 4–6 mm long, white, cream or pink. Petals absent. Stamens 6 in male flowers, slightly longer than sepals, subsessile. Drupe ellipsoidal, sometimes apiculate, 15–21 mm long, 8–18 mm wide, dark red to purplish or black; mesocarp thin; endocarp thick and woody; seeds 1 or 2.
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Tree, 5-9 m high, c. 20 cm ø. Leaves elliptic, obovate, or oblanceolate, mostly almost entire, opposite or 3 or 4 in pseudo-whorls, marginal teeth usually few and faint, apex acuminate, 5-10 by 2-4 cm; petiole 1-1 ½ cm. Racemes short, few-flowered, 1-2 cm, mostly glabrous. Pedicels 3-5 mm in fruit. Bracts 4 ½-5 mm. Stamens (5-)6. Ovary slender, hardly ridged; stigma small knob-shaped. Fruit as in the other species, but crowned by a punctate stigma which is also in fruit non-appressed and hardly 1 mm ø.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 15.0 - 17.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Subsidiary tree in mixed, montane rain-forest, 1200-1500 m (in Queensland 500-1150 m). Fl.--08.; fr. June, Aug.
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Grows in rainforest at altitudes 20–1300 m (Cooper & Cooper 2004: 58).
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Sphenostemon lobosporus world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Australia, and Papua New Guinea

Conservation status

Sphenostemon lobosporus threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83977-1
WFO ID wfo-0000431333
COL ID 4YY2N
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Synonyms

Sphenostemon lobosporus Phlebocalymna lobospora Gonocaryum lobosporum
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