Gomphandra australiana
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Description
Tree, 6-25 m, sometimes with buttresses up to 3 m high.
Branchlets generally quite glabrous.
Leaves oblong- to ovate-elliptic, apex shortly, bluntly and gradually, more rarely ± abruptly acuminate, base broadly cuneate to almost rounded slightly inequilateral, coriaceous, practically glabrous, (6-)10-17(-20) by 5-7(-8) cm, dull greenish-olivaceous when dry, the undersurface often minutely tubercled, nerves (4-)5-6 curved-ascending pairs, hardly depressed above, slightly prominent beneath, veins lax, rather obscure;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia, Kai Is present, North Queensland present
Australia (North Queensland); in Malesia: Kai Is. and New Guinea.
Citation
F. M. BAILEY 1913: Compr. Cat. Q. Pl.: 93
BIRNIE 1926 – In: Nova Guinea: 275
SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 163
VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin: 226: t. 4, f. 20 a-h, t. 5, f. 23b
SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 197
F. M. BAILEY 1913: Compr. Cat. Q. Pl.: 93
C. T. WHITE 1942 – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: 212