Description
Unarmed tree to 5 m high.
Branchlets glaucous, with dense, rigid hairs 0.4-0.6 mm, rarely glabrous.
Flowers yellow, pentamerous, bisexual.
Seeds longitudinal, 6.5-7.5 by 3-4 mm, pleurogram open, funicle thickened into a clavate aril.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present)
Australia (Queensland); in Malesia widely cultivated as an ornamental.
Citation
Bailey 1883: Syn. Qld. Fl.: 137
Summerh. 1940 – In: Bot. Mag.: t. 9604
G. Don 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 474
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 559
G. Don 1864 – In: Benth. Fl. Austral.: 374
G. Don 1900 – In: Qld. Fl.: 492
Pedley 1979 – In: Austrobaileya: 276
