Family: Meliaceae
Plant: A shrub or small tree up to 7m high and with a brown scaly bark.
Flowers: Fragrant, wavy pink-tinged cream cup-like flowers with 4 petals 4-6mm long and 10 stamens.
Flowering: March-July.
Fruit: Red, globular, 3-lobed capsules 1-2cm diameter and up to 1.5cm long.
Leaves: Pinnate 10-30cm long with 3-11 oblanceolate, glossy leaflets 4-10cm long and 1.5-3cm wide with hairy domatia on the underside. The extra leaflet at the tip is larger that the others.
Habitat: Rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Large red 3-lobed capsules. Pinnate leaves with extra larger leaflet at the tip.
Name:
Synoum From Greek = joined egg (referring to its seeds that are joined in pairs inside the capsule).
glandulosum From Latin glans = an acorn (or gland) and the suffix osus for a notable development (referring to the domatia on the underside of its leaves).
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Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Compound |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium, Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked, Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Bark |
Scaly/Corky |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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