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Clarel wrote:

Yesterday

Thank you Jason!

Lastreopsis poecilophlebia

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

I botanically keyed this, your sighting, out using the awesome :

• Field Ashley R., Chris J. Quinn and Frank A. Zich (2022)
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes botanical information system and matrix key.:
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/
Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns;
Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra;
Identic, Brisbane.
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Lastreopsis poecilophlebia

Clarel wrote:

Yesterday

Yes, thank you! I was stumped.

Lastreopsis poecilophlebia

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

Does this candidate species fully match ?:
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/ferns/text/entities/Lastreopsis_poecilophlebia.htm
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Lastreopsis poecilophlebia

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

Features (some) shown and describable in words, in these five photographs:
• substantial tree with a spreading canopy habit, growing near the coast.
• leaves with comparatively long petioles (in proportion to the leaves blades lengths),
• petioles along their length near the mid.–point having 1 gland on each side (±2 in total).
• leaves with ±obovate shapes, bases' cuneate to ±attenuate, apices ±acute .
• branchlets initially at least have appressed pubescent hairs .
• inflorescences spikes, with the flowers spaced apart from each other, and the axes have appressed hairs .
• flowers with white sepals appearing glabrous on the outsides, appearing sometimes hairy or glabrous on the insides and have acute apices .
• flowers insides conspicuously hairy (–presumably villous hairs coming up into the flowers' throats from the disc?).
• flowers have 10 stamens .
• this deciduous foliage, in this dry season, the outer branches drooping .
• fruits round in cross section, longer than their width, ±ovate (unripe) – ±elliptical (ripe) in shape, with terete beaks .
• fruits average length ...?, average diameter ...?, seeds inside about 10 mm long .
• fruits growing green, ripening through red to purple – black .
• fruits appearing in the fifth photograph, ripened to have a glaucous skin–surface bloom .
Etcetera .

Terminalia petiolaris