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Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO

Flowers and buds. Copyright Barry Jago

Fruit, two views, dehisected fruit and seed. Copyright W. T. Cooper

10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO
Alphitonia whitei
Family
Rhamnaceae
Botanical Name
Alphitonia whitei Braid
Braid, K.W. (1932) Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Kew: 181. Type: Queensland. Near Barron River, Bailey (24); ... Jordans Creek, Mocatta 23.
Common name
Ash, Red; Ash, Northern Red; Northern Red Ash; Red Ash; Red Almond; Sarsaparilla
Stem
Blaze odour faint, perhaps resembling liniment.
Leaves
Stipules quite large, about 5 x 1 mm, caducous. Leaf blades about 9-21 x 3.5-7 cm. Petiole grooved or channelled on the upper surface. Young shoots densely clothed in short, reddish brown hairs.
Flowers
Flowers cream to pale green, about 5 mm diam. Sepals about 2 mm long. Petals about 1-1.2 mm long. Stamens enveloped in the petals.
Fruit
Fruits about 6-10 mm diam. Mesocarp not powdery at maturity.
Seedlings
Cotyledons about 8-10 mm long. First pair of leaves with entire margins. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade white on the underside from downy hairs; stipules conspicuous, about 5-8 mm long. Stem hairs short, matted, tortuous.
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1200 m. Grows in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites.
Natural History
Fruit eaten by Fig Parrots. Cooper & Cooper (1994).
Produces a useful general purpose timber.
Wood specific gravity 0.77. Cause et al. (1989).
CYP
X
NEQ
X
Tree
X
RFK Code
22