Family: Gyrostemonaceae
Codonocarpus cotinifolius
Citation:
F. Muell., Pl. Indig. Col. Vic. 1:200 (1862).
Synonymy: Gyrostemon cotinifolius Desf., Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8:116 (1822).
Common name: Native (or desert) poplar.
Description:
Shrubs or trees rarely more than 8 m tall, usually obconical in shape; leaf blades obovate or oblanceolate, rarely elliptic or almost orbicular in young plants, 20-50 x 8-40 mm, acute or obtuse, glaucous.
Male flowers on pedicels 1-4 mm long, 5-6 mm across at anthesis, with calyx scarcely lobed to almost circular; female flowers often borne on branches below the male flowers or below the terminal vegetative growth, with pedicels 10-20 mm long, with calyx shallowly lobed to almost circular, with 30 or more carpels each with a terminal stigma arranged around the top of the central axis.
Fruit 8-14 mm long, with individual follicles dehiscing towards the inside; seeds c.3.5 mm long, obovoid but somewhat laterally compressed, with an almost circular embryo, rugose with more or less developed transverse ridges from the centre, with an irregular cream aril.
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Image source: fig. 101 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 290.
Distribution:
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Short-lived trees found in a wide range of habitats but usually in sandy soils and often common in disturbed areas especially after fires.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, EP, NL, MU. All mainland States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: March — June.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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