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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Meliaceae
Owenia acidula

Citation: F. Muell., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9:304 (1857).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Emu apple, sour plum (or apple), gooya, gruie, colane.

Description:
Trees to c. 4 m high, glabrous, with pendulous branches and the young shoots glutinous; leaves with 9-25 leaflets, to 15 cm long; leaflets linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, oblique, acute, 2-5 cm long; panicles much shorter than the leaves.

Flowers subsessile; sepals suborbicular, c. 2 mm long; petals 4-5 mm long, brownish-white to cream-coloured.

Drupe globular, 15-20 mm diam., red.

image of FSA2_Owenia_aci.jpg Owenia acidula leaf, flower and fruit.
Image source: fig 415c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 451.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, EP.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: recorded in S.Aust. only in Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: The fruits are edible, although sour.

Author: Not yet available


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