Synima macrophylla S.T.Reynolds

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Synima

Characteristics

Small tree, 1.5-3 m high (in Australia up to 11 m). Indumentum short-tomentose, brownish. Twigs, 4-10 mm in diam., grooved. Leaves 2-6-jugate; petiole 4.5-18 cm, slightly to strongly pulvinate, rachis 11-28 cm, both terete or flattened above, rounded below; petiolule 5-15 mm, grooved above. Leaflets elliptic to narrowly ovate, 8-23 by 3.5-11 cm, index 2-3.6, dark green above, mid green below, chartaceous, almost glabrous on both surfaces, midrib with few short hairs; base oblique, cuneate to rounded; apex acute to obtuse or acuminate; midrib slightly prominent above, nerves 5-10 per side, 9-20 mm apart, angle to midrib 60-90°. Inflorescences 5.5-28 cm, not branched. Flowers white. Fruits obpyramidal, rounded deltoid in cross section, red, 17-21 by 15-20 mm, stipe c. 6 mm, outside thinly appressed-hairy, inside villous or more appressed-hairy. Seeds narrowly obovoid, 11-13 by 5-6 mm, testa shiny black, sarcotesta yellow; hypocotyl with very short hairs. Fig. 77g-i
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Tree to 11 m high. Branchlets 6–10 mm diam., rusty brown-tomentose towards apex with crispate hairs. Leaf rachis 11–23 cm long; leaflets 4–10, elliptic to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate to obtuse, entire or crenulate-serrulate towards apex, oblique at base, 9–23 cm long, 5–11 cm wide, glabrous or lower surface puberulous; petiolule 0.5–1.5 cm long; petiole 4.5–18 cm long. Inflorescence spike-like, 6.5–28 cm long; peduncle tomentose; cymules subsessile; bracts to 8 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Calyx to 3.5 mm long, pubescent outside. Petals 2–2.5 mm long; scales ciliate. Filaments to 2.5 mm long. Fruit subglobose or broadly ellipsoidal, keeled at sutures, 1.5–2.2 cm long, red; valves fleshy, villous inside. Aril small, at base of seed, fleshy, orange-yellow.
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Mature height (meter) 6.25 - 7.0
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Grows on margins of rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Synima macrophylla world distribution map, present in Australia, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:928839-1
WFO ID wfo-0000493186
COL ID 7B9YB
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Synonyms

Synima macrophylla