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Geitonoplesium cymosum

Botanic Family

Xanthorrhoeaceae

Author

(R. Brown) A. Cunningham ex R. Brown

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Norfolk Island
• Victoria - Australia
• Fiji
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• New Caledonia
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Moist areas
• rainforest margins
• lakeside forest
• costal rain forest
• riverside
• savanna
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Dec-Feb (Australia)
• Feb (Vanuatu)

Fruiting Times

Evergreen twiner or climbing subshrub to 5m with leaves to 200mm x 50mm. Terminal or axillary cymes or umbels to 100mm long with a small bract, 20mm white tinged green, white or pale mauve flowers, 15mm x 6mm blue-black globular berries

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Bodkin
• JPS
• FNWNG
• The Plant List 2
• FV
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana