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Austrocallerya australis

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Endlicher) J. Compton & Schrire

Common Names

• Naranjillo

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Norfolk Island
• Queensland - Australia
• Tuamotu
• Tubuai - France
• New Caledonia
• Cook Islands - New Zealand
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• rain forest riverside
• mangroves

Flowering Times

• Oct (New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Spring-Summer

Large liana. Leaves to 220mm long with 5-19 coriaceous hairy leaflets to 86mm x 45mm. Panickes to 260mm long with bracts to 4mm x 1mm, purple flowers whitish beneath, yellowish calyx 7mm x 10mm, standard petals to 15mm long including 3mm claw, 18mm wide, wing petals to 14mm x 5.5mm, keel to 14mm x 6mm. Fruit a woody brown-grey or blackish pod to 230mm x 44.5mm.

Further References

• Valder 1995
• ANBG
• JAA
• ILDIS
• Kew
• ATRP