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Terminalia pterocarya F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Combretaceae > Terminalia

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-7 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The bark is dark and with slits along its length. The leaves are arranged in spirals. They are oval but taper towards the base. The leaf is 1.5-5.5 cm long by 0.6-3 cm wide. They are light green and have a rounded or indented tip. The leaf stalk is usually hairy and is 0.3-1.4 cm long. The flowers are cream and have a scent. They are in fairly dense spikes 3-5 cm long in the axils of leaves near the ends of small branches. The fruit are oval, smooth and dry. They have a wing around them. They fruit are 2-3.5 cm long by 1-2 cm wide and light green. They have a single seeded woody shell.
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Shrub or small tree to 7 m high, deciduous. Branchlets sparsely pubescent. Leaves not crowded; lamina ellipitc to obovate, 3.5–7 cm long, 2–3.5 cm, rarely 4.5 cm wide, abruptly contracted into petiole, obtuse at apex, concolorous, sparsely hairy or glabrous; domatia present, inconspicuous; petiole 5–15 mm long. Spike open or dense, c. same length as leaves. Flowers c. 5 mm diam., bisexual flowers 6–9 mm long, male flowers 4–6 mm long. Calyx pubescent outside; lobes triangular, acuminate, 1.5 mm long, 2 mm wide. Staminal filaments c. 4 mm long. Disc villous. Style with a few long hairs at base. Fruit a nut, 2–3 cm long, c. 1.5 cm wide, including the wing, glabrous.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 5.0 - 7.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. Plants grow in open woodland on poor red soils in northern Australia. They also occur on sandy soils near streams.
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Grows in sandy or gravelly soil in open eucalypt communities.
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Usage

The gum is eaten.
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Edible gums
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Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed.
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Distribution

Terminalia pterocarya world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171338-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408548
COL ID 55GD9
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Synonyms

Myrobalanus pterocarpa Terminalia pterocarya
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