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Sterculia quadrifida

 

 

 

Family:Malvaceae

Common name:Orange Fruited Sterculia; Kuman; Kurrajong; Kurrajong, Orange Fruited; Kurrajong, Smooth-seeded; Kurrajong, Red Fruited; Orange Fruited Kurrajong; Peanut Tree; Red Fruited Kurrajong; Scarlet-fruited Kurrajong; Small-flowered Kurrajong; Smooth-seeded Kurrajong; White Crowsfoot; Native Peanut; Koralba

 

Flowers in racemes, greenish, bell-shaped in amongst leaf whorls; separate male and female flowers on same plant. Perfumed. Flowers hairy, perianth tube campanulate about a couple of mm long, inner surface may be bald, lobes 3 mm long, apices cohering. Anthers number variable, crowded into a globular head.Flowers are relatively insignificant when compared to the fruit.

 

Occurs in WA, NT, CYP, NEQ and southwards to north-eastern New South Wales.

Littoral and riverine rainforest

 

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Uploaded on April 25, 2013
Taken on April 25, 2013