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Austrocallerya megasperma

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(F. Mueller) J. Compton & Schrire

Common Names

• Chang geng ji xue teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Queensland - Australia.

Natural Habitats

• Rainforest margins
• open scrub
• coastal rain forest

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Aust)

Fruiting Times

Evergreen vigorous woody glabrous liana. leaves to 300mm long with 7-19 leaflets, leaflets to 100mm x 35mm, mostly glabrous. Racemes to 250mm long, 20mm scented white to purple flowers, calyx 5mm long, corolla to 20mm long. Woody, longitudinally ridged, velvety fruit pods to 180mm x 50mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Valder 1995
• Bodkin
• PlantNET