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Published In: Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel 49. 1837. (April 1837) (Enum. Pl.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 4/6/2012)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 4/6/2012)
Contributor Text:

ABDUL GHAFOOR

Contributor Institution:

Don McNair Herbarium, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW-2308, Australia

E-mails: abdul.ghafour@newcastle.edu.au; artemisiella89@gmail.com

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.: December – March

Type:

Holotype: Freemantle, W. Australia, K. Hügel s. n. (W) Isotype (K).

The type locality appears incorrect since the species does not occur at or near Freemantle (fide Chippendale, l. c.)

Distribution:

A native of Western Australia; introduced in Pakistan and elsewhere.

Comment/Acknowledgements:

Vern.: Flat-topped Yate, Swamp Yate

Easily distinguishable by its rough, dark bark on trunk and lower branches, shining leaves, recurved peduncles, horn-shaped buds and bell-shaped fruits.

It is a useful shade tree and tolerates moderate saline soils. It is also a source of honey.

Map Location:

C-7 Peshawar Dist., Pakistan Forest Agricultural Institue, Tree, cult., March ’85, A. R. Beg s. n. (KUH); G-4 Along roadside, near Zoology Department, Karachi University Campus, Tree, c. 8 m tall, leaves dark green, Fls. pink (anther filaments), Cult., bark rough, 12.2.91, A. Ghafoor 5265 (KUH); G-5 Sindh, Miani Forest near Hyderabad, 11.3.59, Dr A. H. Khan s. n. (PPFI).


 

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Upright to spreading, 12 – 20 m tall trees, with 5 – 10 m, wide, densely foliated crown from usually solitary trunk. Bark rough, thick, dark-grey or blackish, fibrous on trunk and lower parts of main shoots, smooth and grey in upper branches and branchlets. Leaves alternate, petiole 8 – 15 mm long, lamina lanceolate, 7 – 16 x 1.2 – 2.5 cm. Inflorescence axillary, simple, usually 7-flowered umbels on flattened, usually recurved, 2 – 2.5 cm long peduncles. Flowers pale-yellow, c. 4 cm across. Buds on thick, 3 – 6 mm long pedicels, cylindrical or horn-shaped, with basally expanded, cylindrico-conical or horn-shaped, 10 – 15 mm long, green to reddish calyptra; hypantium campanulate, 5 – 10 mm long,. Fruits bell-shaped, inconspicuously ribbed or striated, 8 – 15 x 7 – 11 mm; disc obscured by a prominent staminal ring, narrow, descending; valves 4, outwardly curved, conspicuously exserted. Seeds flattened, ovate, brown.

 
 
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