Family: Sapindaceae
Plant: A small tree up to 6m tall with smooth grey bark.
Flowers: White to yellow-green, small 3mm across with 5-petalled flowers in dense axillary panicles 3-10cm long.
Flowering: October-November.
Fruits: Reddish 2-3 winged capsule up to about 1cm long.
Leaves: Paripinnate, 8-15cm long with 2-6 narrow obovate to elliptic leaflets, 3-10cm long, 1-4cm wide, alternately arranged along the rachis and ending in terminal spur. The leaflets are a dull olive-green above and blue-grey below.
Habitat: Rainforest.
Features: Lump at the base of the leaflets. Spur at the end of the leaf rachis. Winged fruit.
Name:
Guioa After the Spanish botanical artist Jose Guio
semiglauca From Latin = half-glaucous (referring to the undersides of its leaves)
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Yellow, |
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Cream, Green |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
10, 11 |
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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 |
Compound |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest |
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